<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>Do these commands as root:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> chown root /bin/ping</DIV> <DIV> chmod u+s /bin/ping</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>then try again.</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left>-----Original Message----- From: Kenton Smith [mailto:ksmith@chartwelltechnology.com] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 3:21 PM To: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Yet another ping problem </DIV>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: <BLOCKQUOTE><PRE>I'm running RH 7.3, and /bin/ping is setuid root. jc > -----Original Message----- > From: Kenton Smith [mailto:ksmith@chartwelltechnology.com] > Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 2:35 PM > To: nagios-users@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 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing > your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte > Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > </PRE></BLOCKQUOTE> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD>Kenton Smith, GSEC Systems Administrator Chartwell Technology Inc. 700, 407 2 St. S.W. Calgary, AB T2P 2Y3 CANADA P 403 261-6619 F 403 237-5816 E <A href="mailto:ksmith@chartwelltechnology.com">ksmith@chartwelltechnology.com</A> W www.chartwelltechnology.com </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>