Check Ping & RH7.3 - a workaround !!!!
Matthew.Quinney at hollandandholland.com
Matthew.Quinney at hollandandholland.com
Fri Aug 16 19:03:32 CEST 2002
DOH - thats it then !!! Oh well hopefully my mails will help somebody who
makes this mistake too.
Thank you all for your support ! Long live open source software and its
communities !
Matthew
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Matthew Quinney
Certified Lotus Specialist
Network Manager
Holland & Holland Ltd
31-33 Bruton ST
London
Tel - 0207 4994411
email - matthew.quinney at hollandandholland.com
Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sghosh.org>
16/08/2002 18:03
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Re: [Nagios-users] Check Ping & RH7.3 - a workaround !!!!
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 Matthew.Quinney at hollandandholland.com wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Although I have not fixed it I have found a workaround.
>
> /bin/ping was set SUID root but it sill didnt work. I could run a ping
> from the command line when logged in as the nagios user but not it seems
> in combination with the check_ping script as distributed with V1.0b4,
the
> script said it could not parse the output from ping.
there is no check_ping distributed with v1.0b4 only with netsaint-plugins
or nagios-plugins
nagios-plugins supports the RH7.3 output, netsaint-plugins do not..
-sg
>
> However with check_fping all seems fine (although I had to set this suid
> too).
>
> I hope this helps others !
>
> Thank you all,
>
> Matthew
>
>
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> Matthew Quinney
> Certified Lotus Specialist
>
> Network Manager
> Holland & Holland Ltd
> 31-33 Bruton ST
> London
>
> Tel - 0207 4994411
> email - matthew.quinney at hollandandholland.com
>
>
>
> Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sghosh.org>
> Sent by: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> 16/08/2002 17:21
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> I have no problems running ping on RH7.3
>
> Is you /bin/ping setuid root?
>
> -sg
>
>
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 Matthew.Quinney at hollandandholland.com wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > It appears it is RH 7.3 problem. I get an error....
> >
> > [nagios at Pingu nagios]$ ping 160.5.82.129
> > ping: socket: Operation not permitted
> >
> >
> > I am searching the web now, but has anbody got any ideas ? The file
> > permissions are okay.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Matthew
> >
> > Re: [Nagios-users] Check Ping & RH7.3
> >
> >
> >
> > I just built a new 7.3 server and installed the latest nagios plugins
> and
> > everything works great.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Marc
> >
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Check Ping & RH7.3
> >
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I believe that a few people have found that when upgrading to RH 7.3
> they
> > are unable to use check_ping. Has anybody found a solution other than
> > restoring an old copy of ping ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Matthew
> >
>
>
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