Check_ping

[Rasmus Plewe]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 12:33:10PM +0100, Brendon Caligari wrote:
> 
> The plugins were placed as /usr/lib/nagios/plugins as owner root.root
> 
> Nagios is running as sysadmin.sysadmin.
> 
> How can check_ping (ICMP ECHO_REQUEST???) be working if it's neither
> ~SUID'ed nor running as root???

By sending ICMP packages. 
What exactly is your problem? 


Rasmus


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