You don't say what operating system you are running, but I'll share what
was required of me on Solaris:
chmod u+s /opt/csw/sbin/fping*
which has resulted in:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root bin 36K Mar 11 2014 fping
I think I lifted this from:
http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/install.html
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On 12/12/2018 7:12 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:[xymon at xxxxxxxx ~]$ fping yyyyyyyy
fping: can't create raw socket (must run as root?) : Operation not permitted
[xymon at xxxxxxxx ~]$ ls -lh /usr/local/sbin/fping
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 87K Jul 24 12:28 /usr/local/sbin/fping
What should I do to correct this (best solution)?
Found this, but not sure it applies to xymon:
chownroot:zzzzzzzz /usr/sbin/fping
chmod710 /usr/sbin/fping
chmodug+s /usr/sbin/fping