Yet another ping problem

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On 15 Nov 2002, Kenton Smith wrote:

> I can't believe I have to write to the mailing list about a ping
> problem. I looked everywhere though and can't find anything similar to
> what is happening to me.
> I'm running RH8 with Nagios 1.0b6 and installed from the RPM's.
> Everything works fine including plugins except for ping. I think it's a
> permissions problem because when I ping as any user other than root I
> get this message - ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted.
> If I run - 
> ./check_ping -H 192.168.1.1 -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1
> I get this error - 
> /bin/ping -n -U -c 1 192.168.1.1
> Error: Could not interpret output from ping command
> 
> I assume the "could not interpret" error comes from the fact that it's
> being passed the previous error. I've also tried this with older
> versions of ping (RH7.2), which is the way I had it setup on my 7.3 box.
> I can't for the life of me get ping to work as another user other than
> root. I even went so far as to change permissions and ownership to
> nagios and got the same error.
> 
> Any advice?
> 
> Kenton Smith
> 
> 
> 

ping is usually setuid root.

RH8.0 ping syntax has been patched in CVS release.


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-sg



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