[smokeping-users] hping probe

[Seth Lyons]

Everything works fine when I run smokeping as root.  What permissions do you suggest I change?  Because of the way hping manipulates packets, it must be run as root.  Aside from running smokeping as root, what is there left to do?

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 5:17 PM
To: Seth Lyons
Cc: smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] hping probe

Initially I would run smokeping as root for a poll or two to make sure that is the problem.  If so, then simply chgrp and chmod appropriately.

Josh Luthman
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Direct: 937-552-2343
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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Seth Lyons <slyons at fxcm.com> wrote:
> Smokeping runs as smokeping/smokeping.  I am debugging as the root user.  I thought that running debug ran the program with output to stdout as it normally runs, but apparently not.
>
> I know that hping in general needs to be run as root (and that it doesn't run properly when it's setuid'd).  I'm hoping for a solution that is _not_ running smokeping as root.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 5:05 PM
> To: Seth Lyons
> Cc: smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] hping probe
>
> 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?
>
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
>
>
> 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
>>
>> smokeping-2.4.2_6
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> Seth
>>
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