nagios plug-ins error messages

[jeff vier]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 09:17 -0600, C. Bensend wrote:
> > check_icmp deals with raw sockets and must be setuid root.
> > chown root:root check_icmp
> > chmod 4755 check_icmp
> 
> This seems to come up an awful lot, and it will only increase as
> check_icmp gains popularity.
> 
> Andreas, would it be possible to add a bit of code that would
> check for the UID, and if it's not being run with root perms,
> say something like "Needs root privs" or something that gives
> a little more insight?  It might head off some of these repetitive
> questions...
> 
> Just a thought.  :)

I was just thinking about this last night.
I was just going to hack the Makefile to do it for me on install.

If only I knew what I was doing with the Makefile (well, Makefile.in.  I
know that much :))

Ooh, or, to be really classy = have a configure flag that says to do it
(for the paranoid).

That I *really* don't know how to do. :)



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