check_icmp

[Lewis Getschel]

Ah, of course! Thanks for the steps too :-)
It works now.

Michael J. Prentice wrote:

>It needs to have a SUID of root.  In case you are like me and new to Linux you do that by;
>
>Chown root check_icmp
>Chgrp root check_icmp
>Chmod u+s check_icmp
>Chmod g+s check_icmp
>
>Of course there might be a quicker way to do that..
>
>Michael J. Prentice
>AEC One Stop Group Inc.
>Phone (954) 255-4359
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Lewis Getschel
>Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 6:21 PM
>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] check_icmp
>
>All-
>   I just compiled check_icmp 1.0  (as myself) and for users other than 
>root I get:
>Failed to obtain ICMP socket: Operation not permitted
>
>First as myself, second with sudo
> > ./check_icmp masterserver002
>check_icmp: Failed to obtain ICMP socket: Operation not permitted
> > sudo ./check_icmp masterserver002
>OK - masterserver002: rta 0.229ms, lost 
>0%|rta=0.229ms;200.000;500.000;0; pl=0%;40;80;;
> >
>
>Any suggestions for me to resolve this?
>Thanks,
>Lewis
>
>Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Bergström Sebastian wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Andreas Ericsson, I know you're involved in this so perhaps you could
>>>give me an answer? Anyone is encouraged to answer of course :o)
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Being the original author, I think I can.
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I'm trying to find information about the check_icmp plugin for
>>>Nagios. Some e-mails in the past has touched this but I'm not getting
>>>the complete picture. Is there any webpage or other information
>>>channel that shows progress on the check_icmp development and perhaps
>>>some of it's benefits over check_ping (I assume _icmp is to replace
>>>_ping?). Some documentation like switches would be handy as well.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>check_icmp is included in the official plugin package as a drop-in 
>>replacement for check_ping. check_icmp -h provides the necessary help 
>>output.
>>
>>The latest version of check_icmp (as coded by my humble self) is 
>>available at https://devel.op5.se/oss or http://oss.op5.se/nagios as 
>>check_icmp-<version>.tar.gz. Be aware that the code might change 
>>without version increment while I'm researching a weird network error 
>>on *bsd (most likely a kernel issue, but it's hard to know for sure), 
>>although only for fixing this particular bug. Look for the mtime as 
>>provided by apache to find out if it is indeed a new release or not (a 
>>fresh one just hatched 2 seconds ago, actually).
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Best regards, Sebastian Bergstroem
>>>
>>>---------------------------------------------- Sebastian Bergstroem 
>>>Technical coordinator Kunskapsskolan i Sverige AB 
>>>sebastian.bergstroem at kunskapsskolan.se 
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