On 2019-05-29, Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > > How did you install this system? Because /bin/ping is supposed to > come with file capabilities such that the user can allow it to do > what it needs to do (this is part of what 'dpkg-reconfigure > iputils-ping' restores). So it would be interesting to know how the > system was installed in case there is a general theme for those who > never got those capabilities.
There is a bug related to this imbroglio: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780721 (libcap2-bin is recommended but is not a dependancy of iputils-ping, because "iputils-ping, as priority 'important', cannot declare a dependency on libcap2-bin, which is priority 'optional'"). > One other person in this thread said they used (a script which > ultimately uses) debootstrap. > > Cheers, > Andy > > -- “Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.” – Thomas Pynchon