[1.7] ping: socket: Operation not permitted

[Gustavo Seabra]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sep 25 13:17, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.
>>
>> Sorry about that. I use gmail, and try to remember to erase the
>> addresses manually, but every once in a while it escapes me. If anyone
>> knows of a labs feature that can do that, just let me know!
>>
>> > On 09/25/2009 10:58 AM, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Sorry, my bad. Here is the cygcheck.
>> >>
>> >> I use Vista Ultimate, 32 bits.
>> >
>> > The previous thread that you refer to applies here unless you're running
>> > your shell with elevated permissions (and your user is part of the
>> > administrator group).  As noted, this only applies to Cygwin's ping.  The
>> > Windows ping (the one which you showed working) does not have this
>> > restriction.
>> >
>> I see... here's what I don't understand: I have been using cygwin for
>> years without this problem. ping has always "just worked" for me, so I
>> wonder if something has changed recently in the way this is done. Is
>> it possible that before I was somehow  invoking DOS's ping from within
>> cygwin? If so, would just uninstalling cygwin's ping solve the
>> problem?
>
> Yes.  Only the Windows ping works without Admin privs right now.

Thanks. Uninstalling cygwin's version of ping solved the problem.

Gustavo.

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