Initially I would run smokeping as root for a poll or two to make sure that is the problem. If so, then simply chgrp and chmod appropriately.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Seth Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > Smokeping runs as smokeping/smokeping. I am debugging as the root user. I > thought that running debug ran the program with output to stdout as it > normally runs, but apparently not. > > I know that hping in general needs to be run as root (and that it doesn't run > properly when it's setuid'd). I'm hoping for a solution that is _not_ > running smokeping as root. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Josh Luthman [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 5:05 PM > To: Seth Lyons > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] hping probe > > What user/group does smokeping run as a daemon? Are you debugging as root? > > Looks like a permission issue with hping, what's ls -l /usr/local/sbin/hping > say? > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Seth Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: >> I recently began having an issue with the hping probe. When running >> smokeping --debug everything works as expected, but when running as a >> daemon the probe doesn't run and I get the following message in my smokeping >> log: >> >> >> >> HPing: WARNING: /usr/local/sbin/hping -d 0 -p 80 -S -c 5 www.yahoo.com >> was not happy: [open_sockraw] socket(): Operation not permitted [main] >> can't open raw socket >> >> >> >> Any help is greatly appreciated. >> >> >> >> FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64 >> >> hping-2.0.0r3 >> >> smokeping-2.4.2_6 >> >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> Seth >> >> _______________________________________________ >> smokeping-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users >> >> > _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
