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'hobbitping -Ae' failed - program not suid root?

list Henrik Størner
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:37:50 +0100
Message-Id: <user-a6eddadb277a@xymon.invalid>

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:33:47PM +1100, Graeme Shea wrote:
Hi all,
I have been trying to install the admin scripts (0.3) and now have an alarm
for bbtest and a white dot for conn on the hobbit server itself. The conn
test (Ping) to the other servers at the site are normal. Everything else
seems normal. The error message is 

Error output:
Execution of 'hobbitping -Ae' failed - program not suid root?
2008-02-18 20:28:13 Cannot get RAW socket: Operation not permitted
Like it says: Your ~hobbit/server/bin/hobbitping needs to be owned by
root, and with suid permissions.

	chown root ~hobbit/server/bin/hobbitping
	chmod u+s  ~hobbit/server/bin/hobbitping


Henrik