From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Apr 28 12:31:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DE4614E03 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:31:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-root@i-zone.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.227.78] (helo=i-zone.demon.co.uk) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10ca2k-0009aO-0C for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:30:50 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:16:11 +0100 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: John Subject: Re: Ping Error Question References: <3.0.6.32.19990421222306.00794b50@mail.trlinks.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990421222306.00794b50@mail.trlinks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 4.02 U Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <3.0.6.32.19990421222306.00794b50@mail.trlinks.com>, Rhavenn StormWing writes >I just got pppd to work right and now when I try and ping >anything(including the localhost) I get this error: > >ping: sendto: Permission denied (this is repeated over and over) > >I am running FreeBSD3.1 . I have my resolv.conf file set to my ISP's >nameserver which I thought was about it >to get IP address mapping. > >Could someone explain to me what that error message means and point me in >the right direction to solving it? > > >Thanks for any help in advance! :) > wherever ping lives is not in your path. Locate ping, go to the directory, and then ./ping localhost what is the output of set from your shell? echo $PATH will give you the same answer. -- John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message