Re: [opennms-devel] ICMP/Root

2009-03-18 Thread Les Mikesell
Benjamin Reed wrote: > >> I hit this problem many years ago and the solution we developed was to >> create a separate executable that had root privilege. So there was a >> Java class, a native code .so/.dll and the root executable. When Java >> opened up an ICMP socket, the native code would for

Re: [opennms-devel] ICMP/Root

2009-03-18 Thread Benjamin Reed
AMT wrote: > I hit this problem many years ago and the solution we developed was to > create a separate executable that had root privilege. So there was a > Java class, a native code .so/.dll and the root executable. When Java > opened up an ICMP socket, the native code would fork the executable

[opennms-devel] ICMP/Root

2009-03-18 Thread AMT
I just saw an archived message from Jonathan Sartin regarding root and ICMP from August of last year. I hit this problem many years ago and the solution we developed was to create a separate executable that had root privilege. So there was a Java class, a native code .so/.dll and the root exec