[smokeping-users] hping probe

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Mon Sep 20 23:05:17 CEST 2010


What user/group does smokeping run as a daemon?  Are you debugging as root?

Looks like a permission issue with hping, what's ls -l
/usr/local/sbin/hping say?

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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Seth Lyons <slyons at fxcm.com> wrote:
> I recently began having an issue with the hping probe.  When running
> smokeping --debug everything works as expected, but when running as a daemon
> the probe doesn’t run and I get the following message in my smokeping log:
>
>
>
> HPing: WARNING: /usr/local/sbin/hping -d 0 -p 80 -S -c 5 www.yahoo.com was
> not happy: [open_sockraw] socket(): Operation not permitted [main] can't
> open raw socket
>
>
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64
>
> hping-2.0.0r3
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> smokeping-2.4.2_6
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>
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> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Seth
>
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