On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:02:41PM -0400, Chuck Hast wrote: > Folks, > I am trying to get listen to be viewable by other users than root. I have > checked the permissions on listen and all appears OK, but when I > try to run it as a common user, I get a failure.
Define OK? > Here is the error message: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ listen > socket: Operation not permitted > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ listen needs to open a socket to receive all traffic (like packet sniffing on ethernet), which only root can do. So listen must be either run by root, or run as root using setuid. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
