thanks David! on another note, this bit regarding the head of the trunk on cvs: "David Nolan has applied his large set of patches to the head of the trunk. Much thanks to him for helping with that." Do these patches included per-host-based notifications, or is that still to come?
Joubin ----- Original Message ----- From: David Nolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2004 6:14 am Subject: Re: fping and root permissions > > > --On Monday, July 05, 2004 4:50 PM -0700 Joubin Moshrefzadeh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I run mon as a regular user and am using fping.monitor, I get the > > error about needing root permissions or running fping with > setuid root. > > how do you do the setuid thing? > > > > As root: > chmod +s /path/to/fping > > > > i had the same problem before using perl's ping module and > trying to do > > an icmp ping... > > > > This wouldn't be solvable without using suidperl, which introduces > a whole > slew of other issues. > > > -David > > David Nolan <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > curses: May you be forced to grep the termcap of an unclean yacc while > a herd of rogue emacs fsck your troff and vgrind your pathalias! > > > _______________________________________________ mon mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon
