check_dhcp issue

[Andreas Ericsson]

Dei Bertine wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I need to monitor our dhcp server and came to see the check_dhcp plugin.
> 
> However I'm getting this error when initiating the command:
> 
> nagios at tool:~/libexec$ ./check_dhcp -s serveip1
> Error: Could not bind socket to interface eth0.  Check your privileges...
> 
> But when I am on root, I get this: 
> root at tool:/usr/local/nagios/libexec# ./check_dhcp -s serveip1
> OK: Received 1 DHCPOFFER(s), max lease time = 86400 sec
> 
> ls -als on check_dhcp:
> 76 -rwxr-xr-x 1 nagios nagios 72834 2009-04-27 13:06 check_dhcp
> 
> Do I need to do something like set permissions on serveip1 server? 
> 
> Please advise.
> 

As root on your nagios server:
chmod 4755 ./check_dhcp

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