I think this may be intentional. check_icmp is the same way; it's not
installed setuid root by default; the installing administrator has to
manually chmod it that way. setuid root programs are particularly
dangerous, which is why things tend not to come prepackaged that way. (I
can't find a policy document on it, but Debian flags setuid binaries,
which implies that they should at least only be distributed with the
utmost caution. http://lintian.debian.org/reports/tags/setuid-
binary.html ) If these binaries were to be distributed setuid root, they
should be owned by root:nagios (assuming that Nagios executes commands
as a user belonging to group 'nagios') and chmod'd 4754.

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could not bind socket check_dhcp
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156649
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