[smokeping-users] probes tcpping : ERROR: TCPPing 'binary' does not point to an executable

[Gabriel Filion]

On 2019-02-21 6:40 a.m., Niall O'Reilly wrote:
> On 21 Feb 2019, at 10:52, Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
> 
>> binary = /root/bin/tcpping
> 
> Your web server wouldn't by default (and, IMHO, shouldn't ever)
> have access the the /root directory.
> 
> I think that /usr/local/bin/tcpping might be a better place
> to keep the file.
> 
> I hope this helps.

right, if the web interface is trying to access binaries then they
should be in a more generic place.

... but at the same time it's kinda weird that the web interface would
need to be checking that probes are executables. It shouldn't be the web
interface's concern at all.

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