[smokeping-users] ANNOUNCE: fping 3.3

[samy.nashaat at orange.com]

Hello All,

Can you explain me more how to do the " install fping setuid root:" as its not clear for me.

On the other hand, where can I find a debian package for fping3.4?

Thanks in advance
         
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-----Original Message-----
From: smokeping-users-bounces+samy.nashaat=orange.com at lists.oetiker.ch [mailto:smokeping-users-bounces+samy.nashaat=orange.com at lists.oetiker.ch] On Behalf Of Vinny_Abello at Dell.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 5:39 PM
To: tobi at oetiker.ch
Cc: smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] ANNOUNCE: fping 3.3

Thanks Tobi! Setuid root on the new binary did the trick. Thanks for the fast response!

-Vinny

-----Original Message-----
From: Tobias Oetiker [mailto:tobi at oetiker.ch]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 11:35 AM
To: Abello, Vinny
Cc: smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch; david at schweikert.ch
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] ANNOUNCE: fping 3.3

Hi Vinny,

Today Vinny_Abello at Dell.com wrote:

> 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?

I guess you have to install fping setuid root:

chown root:root /usr/bin/fping
chmod u+s /usr/bin/fping

cheers
tobi

> -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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