On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 12/03/2009 07:35 PM, Robert Pendell wrote: >> >> Whenever I use ping it returns the message socket: Operation not >> permitted. This only happens if I am not running the shell as an >> administrator otherwise it works fine.. The windows stock ping >> command doesn't need admin rights to run. I am running Windows 7 and >> cygwin 1.7. Attached is my cygcheck output. > > Yep. Known issue. Actually, the only reason Cygwin still has its own ping > is > some people prefer it over the Windows version (and the complaints against > it have been low volume). Anyway, this is the long way of saying "That's > the > way it works and it's unlikely to change". >
Ahh... ok. I dug up an old thread on this. Looks like it is a UAC thing then. Thanks for the info. Robert Pendell [email protected] CAcert Assurer "A perfect world is one of chaos." -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
