Fping can only be run by root? icmpping not working

[morhaven]

Hi need some assistance...

I was following the documentation for zabbix 1.8 to make sure icmpping and icmppingsec
worked fine. I had icmp ping working pretty well, but could not make icmppingsec to work.

so I followed the manul in zabbix 1.8 to allow fping access

sudo chmod ug+s /usr/bin/fping
sudo chmod 710 /usr/bin/fping
sudo chown root:zabbix /usr/bin/fping

now noting works

zabbix@gnmc:/home/zabix$ fping
This program can only be run by root, or it must be setuid root.



ubuntu 9.10
zabbix 1.8

[alixen]

Hi,

so I followed the manul in zabbix 1.8 to allow fping access

sudo chmod ug+s /usr/bin/fping
sudo chmod 710 /usr/bin/fping
sudo chown root:zabbix /usr/bin/fping

now noting works

From the manual:

shell> chown root:zabbix /usr/sbin/fping
shell> chmod 710 /usr/sbin/fping
shell> chmod ug+s /usr/sbin/fping

Order of commands matters, Linux will reset setuid bit after a chown for security reasons.
So, you must do these commands in the order defined in the manual (chown first).

Hope this helps
Alixen

[morhaven]

thanks that fixed it.