[Xymon] xymon & fping

[Frank M. Ramaekers]

Very similar, CenfOS (CentOS) 7.5:
cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (AltArch)

Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.

-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of John Thurston
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 10:48 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon & fping

You don't say what operating system you are running, but I'll share what was required of me on Solaris:
   chmod u+s /opt/csw/sbin/fping*

which has resulted in:
   -rwsr-xr-x   1 root     bin          36K Mar 11  2014 fping

I think I lifted this from:
   https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__xymon.sourceforge.net_xymon_help_install.html&d=DwIGaQ&c=laxeQK7vPmHfouIIPNyCfbQd49eK3u00U8Jdo0RFvts&r=EOaM1MkMLG24_TOy4m7EdDoX0CP9-c0YJ2kTdeagcqQ&m=Ayb5DW1GZv2CLaqXNRLKSQej0NRwAAggt75S6pN_U3w&s=5nGW0vI_8zcJ4TCUQS6IpO5TKub3RIUBJU75HVGT1j0&e=

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John Thurston    907-465-8591
John.Thurston at alaska.gov
Department of Administration
State of Alaska

On 12/12/2018 7:12 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
> [xymon at xxxxxxxx ~]$ fping yyyyyyyy
> 
> fping: can't create raw socket (must run as root?) : Operation not 
> permitted
> 
> [xymon at xxxxxxxx ~]$ ls -lh /usr/local/sbin/fping
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 87K Jul 24 12:28 /usr/local/sbin/fping
> 
> What should I do to correct this (best solution)?
> 
> Found this, but not sure it applies to xymon:
> 
> 	
> 
> chownroot:zzzzzzzz /usr/sbin/fping
> chmod710 /usr/sbin/fping
> chmodug+s /usr/sbin/fping
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