[smokeping-users] hping probe

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Seth Lyons <slyons at fxcm.com>:

> 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?

chown root:root /usr/local/sbin/hping
chmod u+s /usr/local/sbin/hping

(if hping can be run setuid)

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