0 bytes pin using check_ping

Hari Sekhon hpsekhon at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 4 17:28:35 CET 2007


how about just using sudo to grant the nagios user the suid equivalent 
privilege since that's what it was designed for...

that's what I do with my plugins that need root.

-h

Hari Sekhon



Phil Costelloe wrote:
> dhaval thakar wrote:
>   
>> I tried with check_icmp,
>> but the results in "check_icmp: Failed to obtain ICMP socket:
>> Operation not permitted". i used "chmod 777 check_icmp" but didn't
>> worked out. 
>>     
>
> I think check_icmp needs to be owned by root and setuid in order for it
> to carry out socket operations.
>
> Try:
>
> chown root check_icmp
> chmod u+s check_icmp
>
> Standard warning: you should always understand the consequences before
> setting the setuid or setgid bit on a file. A Google search on "setuid"
> will turn up plenty of general info.
>
> Phil
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