can ping only with sudo

[tom arnall]

lately i inadvertently did 'chmod 777 -R /dev' on my system (as root, of 
course!). now i find that to ping anyone i have to do it as sudo, else i get:

        ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted

could the two things be connected?

thanks,

tom arnall





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