Launce wrote:

Hey folks,

Ok, I am fairly successful with my roll-out so far, the help here has been great, thanks!

So, todays issue is fping, I am getting the following out of my error logs:

2006-03-09 11:14:37 Execution of '/usr/local/sbin/fping -Ae' failed - program not suid root? however when running an ls -al it shows:

-rwxrwxrwt 1 root root 47723 Mar 7 10:53 fping

Whoa, that's a weird mode. Something funny going on in your server? Check out your other binaries for odd perms. Nothing should be world-writable.

In any case, the SUID bit can be set with:

$ chmod 4755 /usr/local/sbin/fping

HTH,

JT

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On 3/9/06, Launce <lhaught at broadline.tv> wrote:

however when running an ls -al it shows:

-rwxrwxrwt 1 root root 47723 Mar 7 10:53 fping

any ideas?

Well, that's not suid root. It should look something like "-rwsr-xr-x". As already mentioned, being world writable is a *bad* thing. You chould remove it, reinstall from source and then make it SUID root (chmod +s).

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