Saturday, January 29, 2011

0821-067 Ping: the socket creation call failed

When trying to ping as a user that is not root, the following error message was  displayed:

0821-067 Ping: the socket creation call failed.
the file access permissions do not allow the specified
actions.



 Change the setuid bit permissions for /usr/sbin/ping. Enter:
chmod 4555 /usr/sbin/ping

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