This plugin must be either run as root or setuid root

[dlukinski]

Hello XI support team

We are getting "Warning: This plugin must be either run as root or setuid root." error when trying to run check_icmp on some of our modGearman machines (as attached).

Please advice what could be done to fix this properly

Thank you

[lmiltchev]

Are the permissions on the "check_icmp" plugin different on the "failing" machines?

Can you run the following commands on one of the problem, and one of the working gearman machines, and show the output?

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ls -la /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_icmp
rep nag /etc/group

Note: Modify the path to the plugin if needed

[dlukinski]

Are the permissions on the "check_icmp" plugin different on the "failing" machines?

Can you run the following commands on one of the problem, and one of the working gearman machines, and show the output?

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ls -la /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_icmp
rep nag /etc/group

Note: Modify the path to the plugin if needed

Hi

Got it working by chmod u+s (groups were nagios all cases / owner was root in all cases
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login as: root
[email protected]'s password:
Last login: Thu Jan 5 05:58:43 2017
[root@uskc-nagsgprod01 libexec]# chmod u+s check_icmp

[root@uskc-nagsgprod01 libexec]# ls -la check_icmp
-rwsr-xr-x. 1 root nagios 213886 Sep 2 11:32 check_icmp
[root@uskc-nagsgprod01 libexec]# rep nag /etc/group
bash: rep: command not found...

[dwhitfield]

It sounds like this issue has been resolved. Is it okay if we lock this thread? Thanks for choosing the Nagios forums!

[dlukinski]

It sounds like this issue has been resolved. Is it okay if we lock this thread? Thanks for choosing the Nagios forums!

Yes please