Check_ping
Pettersson, Magnus
magnus.pettersson at eds.com
Tue Feb 4 15:56:00 CET 2003
By the plugin utilizing the system ping command, which must be suid root.
/magnus
-----Original Message-----
From: Rasmus Plewe [mailto:rplewe at hpce.nec.com]
Sent: 04 February 2003 13:57
To: Nagios users list
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Check_ping
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 12:33:10PM +0100, Brendon Caligari wrote:
>
> The plugins were placed as /usr/lib/nagios/plugins as owner root.root
>
> Nagios is running as sysadmin.sysadmin.
>
> How can check_ping (ICMP ECHO_REQUEST???) be working if it's neither
> ~SUID'ed nor running as root???
By sending ICMP packages.
What exactly is your problem?
Rasmus
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