[smokeping-users] Smoketrace error: The specified type oftracerouting is allowed for superuser only.

Fred Skrotzki fskrotzki at textwise.com
Mon Mar 9 20:06:50 CET 2009


Figured it out.  It's not fping that was the issue but traceroute's
setuid bit that needed to be set. 

-----Original Message-----
From: smokeping-users-bounces at lists.oetiker.ch
[mailto:smokeping-users-bounces at lists.oetiker.ch] On Behalf Of Fred
Skrotzki
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:46 PM
To: Jonah Horowitz; smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] Smoketrace error: The specified type
oftracerouting is allowed for superuser only.

It is set and still getting the same message. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonah Horowitz [mailto:JHorowitz at looksmart.net]
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:29 PM
To: Fred Skrotzki; smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] Smoketrace error: The specified type of
tracerouting is allowed for superuser only.

Try making your fping binary suid.

Jonah


On 3/9/09 11:21 AM, "Fred Skrotzki" <fskrotzki at textwise.com> wrote:

> 
> Anybody possibly help? I'm not sure where to go from here.
> 
> I get that message in red text after it starts and attempts to trace 
> it looks like.
> 
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