[hobbit] Hobbitping not working

Larry Barber lebarber at gmail.com
Wed Jun 7 22:33:44 CEST 2006


You need to set the suid bit on hobbitping:

# chmod +s hobbitping (as root).

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On 6/7/06, Gearing, James <James.Gearing at analog.com> wrote:
>
> I just installed hobbit server 4.2-beta. This is my first hobbit setup.
>
> Hobbitping does not seem to be working. All "conn" are red, saying nodes
> are not OK, not responding to ping.
>
> The bbtest reports...
>
> Error output:
> Execution of '/export/home/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitping -Ae' failed -
> program not suid root?
>
> Hobbitping is owned by root:hobbit
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
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