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From: mparker@chip.UUCP (M. D. Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: RDUMP - socket permission problem
Keywords: dump bsd network
Message-ID: <211@chip.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 88 17:18:10 GMT
Organization: M/A-COM Government Systems Inc., San Diego, CA
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Greetings...

In my zeal to properly protect files in my UNIX system, I seem to have caused
/etc/rdump to stop working.  Not only does it fail between systems, it fails
to work when it is for the local system.  The error message presented is:

	rcmd:socket: Permission denied

A similar problem happens when I do /etc/ping to another site.  A note here
is that /etc/ping will work correctly when executed as ROOT.

Question, what did I break and how do I fix it?  And unfortunately, NO I do 
not have sources.

Thanks for your help...

Mike Parker
Manager, Systems Administration
chip!mparker@nosc.mil