On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Bob Meyer wrote:

> Richard Adams wrote:
> 
> > > socket(0x11 /* PF_??? */, SOCK_PACKET, 512) = -1 EPERM (Operation not
> > > permitted)
> > >
> > > Who knows what permission is missing ?
> >
> > I may be out of line here, but do you have CONFIG_PACKET defined in the
> > kernel of as a module.?
> 
> Does that mean you have a better solution then
> chown root.root listen
> chmod 4775 listen

No, that's the only working solution. Listen needs root privileges so it
needs to be setuid root to work for ordinary users. Though I prefer the
symbolic "chmod u+s listen"...

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