check_dhcp

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, John Duraiswamy wrote:

> Hello Everyone, 
> 
> When I do the check_dhcp from command line to a Netware server it works
> fine but after loading,  it's giving the following error. Does anyone
> know why this is happening.
> 
> 
> error: Could not bind to DHCP socket (port 68)! Check your
> privileges... 
> 

check_dhcp needs to be installed suid root in order to open a privileged 
port (68).

-- 
-sg



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