[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot ping localhost (with NoNet configuration)

[Fabrizio Chierzi]

Hi Ivan ... If you are interested to compile gcc you can follow these
pieces of advice ... They are for Open Solaris but still valid ... Good Luck

http://www.dev-eth0.de/compile-gcc-4-on-opensolaris/

Fabrizio Chierzi

2012/9/10 James Carlson <carlsonj at workingcode.com>

> On 09/08/12 19:23, Roel_D wrote:
> > Most stupid question, but are running ping as root or as user?
> > A normal user is not allowed to ping!
>
> I don't think that's it.  As far as I know, /usr/sbin/ping has always
> been setuid root.  If that were the problem, the user wouldn't get "host
> unreachable," he'd get a permissions error.
>
> % id
> uid=1001(carlsonj) gid=10(staff)
> % ping -sn 127.0.0.1
> PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0. time=0.077 ms
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1. time=0.075 ms
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2. time=0.067 ms
> ^C
> ----127.0.0.1 PING Statistics----
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max/stddev = 0.067/0.073/0.077/0.005
>
> --
> James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj at workingcode.com>
>
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