[hobbit] 'hobbitping -Ae' failed - program not suid root?

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Mon Feb 18 16:37:50 CET 2008


On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:33:47PM +1100, Graeme Shea wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have been trying to install the admin scripts (0.3) and now have an alarm
> for bbtest and a white dot for conn on the hobbit server itself. The conn
> test (Ping) to the other servers at the site are normal. Everything else
> seems normal. The error message is 
> 
> Error output:
> Execution of 'hobbitping -Ae' failed - program not suid root?
> 2008-02-18 20:28:13 Cannot get RAW socket: Operation not permitted

Like it says: Your ~hobbit/server/bin/hobbitping needs to be owned by
root, and with suid permissions.

	chown root ~hobbit/server/bin/hobbitping
	chmod u+s  ~hobbit/server/bin/hobbitping


Henrik




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