SPECS: iputils.spec - group icmp for /bin/ping*

[Paweł Gołaszewski]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Elan [windows-1257] Ruusamäe wrote:
> > > > > why wrong? /bin/ping is for daemons, /usr/bin/ping is for lusers 
> > > > > (by mmazur@#pld)
> > > > 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...

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