[smokeping-users] hping probe

[Seth Lyons]

I tried that.  Unfortunately hping cannot be run setuid.

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From: smokeping-users-bounces+slyons=fxcm.com at lists.oetiker.ch [mailto:smokeping-users-bounces+slyons=fxcm.com at lists.oetiker.ch] On Behalf Of Ralf Hildebrandt
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 5:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] hping probe

* 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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