Henrik, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. The permissions looked right in the properties dialog box. I ran the commands anyway and all just came back. I'm sure I hadn't changed them.

Thanks again

Graeme

-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, 19 February 2008 2:38 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] 'hobbitping -Ae' failed - program not suid root?

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

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