On Wednesday 09 March 2005 16:53, Paweł Gołaszewski wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Elan [windows-1257] Ruusamäe wrote: > > > > > > why wrong? /bin/ping is for daemons, /usr/bin/ping is for lusers > > > > > > (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > > > > > > > what? /usr/bin/ping is non-suid ping. It does not send icmp > > > > > messages and is often not useful. /bin/ping is regular, icmp ping. > > > > > > > > i need to use icmp ping, /bin/ping for the nagios daemon > > > > > > Why not to use adm group for that purpose? In that group are only > > > ping/traceroute/mtr utilities... > > > > are you sure? > > files that came from distro? yes, I'm sure. > > > i have few config files in same group in my system (altho the group > > membership wasn't from PLD). > > this is your private configuration... but still using group 'adm' means something administrative, aka person beind it (ie not a daemon), and from name you can't understand where's actually being used. but having group "icmp" -> ahaa, icmp related privileges
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