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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I tried that and it didn’t help:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:navy'>2007-12-19
14:09:19 Could not run the command '/usr/sbin/fping -Ae' (exec failed)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:navy'>2007-12-19
14:09:19 hobbitping invocation failed: Permission denied<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>/etc/group<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>From the message, it appears that
hobbitping cannot invoke fping. But, from the permissions:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>-rwsr-x--- 1 root adm 35281
Mar 7 2007 /usr/sbin/fping <br>
<br>
-rwsr-x--- 1 root hobbit 71927 Apr 13 2007<br>
/usr/libexec/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitping<br>
<br>
<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hobbit can run hobbitping and will be come
root and thus could run fping? So, I’m still at a loss…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Josh
Luthman [mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, December 19, 2007
1:40 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [hobbit] <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">CONN</st1:place></st1:State> status is white for
all hosts</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I didn't say anything about user name - only the group
or global.<br>
<br>
Your options are...<br>
<br>
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root adm 35281 Mar 7 2007 /usr/sbin/fping<br>
-rwsr-x--- 1 root adm 35281 Mar 7 2007 /usr/sbin/fping #add
hobbituser to group adm <br>
-rwsr-x--- 1 root hobbit 35281 Mar 7 2007 /usr/sbin/fping #add
hobbituser to group adm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=gmailquote><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 12/19/07, <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Hubbard, Greg L</span></b> <<a
href="mailto:greg.hubbard@eds.com"> greg.hubbard@eds.com</a>> wrote:</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>fping has to bet suid
root so it can run.. there should be something in fping doc on how to do this.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Josh
Luthman [mailto:<a href="mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com" target="_blank">josh@imaginenetworksllc.com</a>]
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, December 19, 2007
1:28 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk"
target="_blank">hobbit@hswn.dk</a><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [hobbit] <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">CONN</st1:place></st1:State> status is white for
all hosts</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span class=e><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Modify the permissions so that the hobbit user can
execute fping!</span></font></span><br>
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<span class=e>Assuming your hobbit user is "hobbit" you'll need to
either a) change the group owner of /usr/sbin/fping to hobbit or b) add hobbit
to group adm or c) make it so everyone can r-x /usr/sbin/fping <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=gmailquote><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 12/19/07, <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Frank M. Ramaekers</span></b> <<a
href="mailto:FRamaekers@ailife.com" target="_blank">FRamaekers@ailife.com</a>>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I've just got through installing a fresh version of
hobbit and now<br>
everything looks great except for the "conn" status which is showing
up<br>
white and showing "Hobbit system error".<br>
<br>
bb-network.log :<br>
<br>
2007-12-19 13:15:10 Could not run the command '/usr/sbin/fping -Ae'<br>
(exec failed)<br>
2007-12-19 13:15:10 hobbitping invocation failed: Permission denied<br>
<br>
-rwsr-x--- 1 root adm 35281
Mar 7 2007 /usr/sbin/fping <br>
<br>
-rwsr-x--- 1 root hobbit 71927 Apr 13 2007<br>
/usr/libexec/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitping<br>
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