Check Ping & RH7.3 - a workaround !!!!

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Fri Aug 16 19:03:41 CEST 2002


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
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Matthew Quinney
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> 
> 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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> Re: [Nagios-users] Check Ping & RH7.3
> 
> 
> 
> 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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