[smokeping-users] ANNOUNCE: fping 3.3

[Vinny_Abello at Dell.com]

Hello,

I just tried upgrading fping on a FreeBSD host I have smokeping 2.6.7 running on and (to fping 3.4) and I noticed the graphs broke. I dug a little deeper and found that fping won't run as requested due to the smokeping process being run under an unprivileged user. If I run the fping command as smokeping attempts as root, it will succeed. Otherwise I get a can't create raw socket error.

Is there a quick fix for this (other than obviously running smokeping as root)? Can I give my smokeping user access to raw sockets somehow or have smokeping spawn the fping process with higher privileges?

For the time being I'm going to revert back to the 2.4b2 version of fping from ports which was working fine.

Thanks!

-Vinny

-----Original Message-----
From: smokeping-users-bounces+vinny_abello=dell.com at lists.oetiker.ch [mailto:smokeping-users-bounces+vinny_abello=dell.com at lists.oetiker.ch] On Behalf Of Tobias Klausmann
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 6:58 AM
To: smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] ANNOUNCE: fping 3.3

Hi! 

On Tue, 04 Sep 2012, David Schweikert wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 09:38:01 +0200, Tobias Klausmann wrote:
> > David Schweikert wrote:
> > > * Output statistics to stdout instead of stderr
> > 
> > For the benefit of those who are not aware: this breaks Smokeping
> > (at least up to and including 2.6.8 since it expects this data on
> > stderr. My current workaround is a shell wrapper that simply does
> > 1>&2 so data lands on stderr again.
> 
> Hi Tobias,
> 
> Thanks a lot for reporting this issue. I have released fping 3.4 with
> that change reverted:
> 
> http://fping.org/dist/
> 
> Could you test it and tell me if it works ok for you with SmokePing?

Works nicely indeed! Thanks a lot. Since I've integrated the
stdout-switch patch into my installation of Smokeping, I had to
switch that back of course.

Regards,
Tobias

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