Thanks Tobi! Setuid root on the new binary did the trick. Thanks for the fast response!
-Vinny -----Original Message----- From: Tobias Oetiker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 11:35 AM To: Abello, Vinny Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] ANNOUNCE: fping 3.3 Hi Vinny, Today [email protected] wrote: > Hello, > > I just tried upgrading fping on a FreeBSD host I have smokeping > 2.6.7 running on and (to fping 3.4) and I noticed the graphs > broke. I dug a little deeper and found that fping won't run as > requested due to the smokeping process being run under an > unprivileged user. If I run the fping command as smokeping > attempts as root, it will succeed. Otherwise I get a can't create > raw socket error. > > Is there a quick fix for this (other than obviously running > smokeping as root)? Can I give my smokeping user access to raw > sockets somehow or have smokeping spawn the fping process with > higher privileges? I guess you have to install fping setuid root: chown root:root /usr/bin/fping chmod u+s /usr/bin/fping cheers tobi > -Vinny > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Tobias Klausmann > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 6:58 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] ANNOUNCE: fping 3.3 > > Hi! > > On Tue, 04 Sep 2012, David Schweikert wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 09:38:01 +0200, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > > > David Schweikert wrote: > > > > * Output statistics to stdout instead of stderr > > > > > > For the benefit of those who are not aware: this breaks Smokeping > > > (at least up to and including 2.6.8 since it expects this data on > > > stderr. My current workaround is a shell wrapper that simply does > > > 1>&2 so data lands on stderr again. > > > > Hi Tobias, > > > > Thanks a lot for reporting this issue. I have released fping 3.4 with > > that change reverted: > > > > http://fping.org/dist/ > > > > Could you test it and tell me if it works ok for you with SmokePing? > > Works nicely indeed! Thanks a lot. Since I've integrated the > stdout-switch patch into my installation of Smokeping, I had to > switch that back of course. > > Regards, > Tobias > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch [email protected] ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
