-In order to use the ping sensor, this program must be installed as
-setuid root, so that it can create an ICMP socket. Root privileges
-are disavowed shortly after startup (just after connecting to the
-X server and reading the resource database) so this is \fIbelieved\fP
-to be a safe thing to do, but it is usually recommended that you
-have as few setuid programs around as possible, on general principles.
+In order to use the ping sensor on most systems, this program must be
+installed as setuid root, so that it can create an ICMP RAW socket.
+Root privileges are disavowed shortly after startup (just after
+connecting to the X server and reading the resource database) so this
+is \fIbelieved\fP to be a safe thing to do, but it is usually
+recommended that you have as few setuid programs around as possible,
+on general principles.