I've a simple ping script using Net::Ping. I was surprised to see it was already on my system, so I didn't install it, nor the version of Perl I'm running on this machine (RHEL v. 4).

However when I run my script I get the following message: icmp ping requires root privilege at ./multitemp.pl line 15

I have root priv on my machine, and the script runs fine as root, but I'm curious if there's a way to open the privilege up such that I can run it as regular user on the machine. I didn't realize one could set the privileges such that a perl module would work for root only. I located the Net/Ping.pm module, but it's priveleges are set 444, meaning root and the world both have read privileges.I can run the regular "ping" command from the commandline, and don't have to be root. Is this an internal setting to Perl that gets set when you install a module?

Is there a quick way to undo root-only modules? Or does it require a seperate install of some sort? Or something more obtuse?

--Ray

In reply to icmp ping requires root privilege only? by raybies

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