Gerard I have exactly the same thing happen with Red Hat 6. I
compiled the libax25 set and the listen it made works only in a root
window. In fact I start X windows as a user and have to su - a window to
get root.
I get a socket error and have no idea why.
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Gerard Parat wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I upgraded from RH5.1/2.0.36 to Mandrake 6.0 so now I have kernel 2.2.9,
> libax25-0.0.6, ax25-apps-0.0.2 and ax25-tools-0.0.3. Everything is OK !
> Except for listen utility which works only under root. Here are the
> error
> when I strace it under an ordinary user account:
>
> socket(0x11 /* PF_??? */, SOCK_PACKET, 512) = -1 EPERM (Operation not
> permitted)
>
> If I run under root I got the following instead:
>
> socket(0x11 /* PF_??? */, SOCK_PACKET, 512) = 3
>
> Who knows what permission is missing ?
>
> --
> 73 G�rard F6FGZ
>
>
Best wishes
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