Yet another ping problem

Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com
Fri Nov 15 22:27:43 CET 2002


Do these commands as root:
 
   chown root /bin/ping
   chmod u+s /bin/ping
 
then try again.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenton Smith [mailto:ksmith at chartwelltechnology.com]
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 3:21 PM
To: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Yet another ping problem


Even if I run nagios as root the ping plugin isn't working. 

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 14:12, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote: 

I'm running RH 7.3, and /bin/ping is setuid root.



jc



> -----Original Message-----

> From: Kenton Smith [mailto:ksmith at chartwelltechnology.com]

> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 2:35 PM

> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net

> Subject: [Nagios-users] Yet another ping problem

> 

> 

> 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

> 

> 

> 

> 

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