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check "Ping" return warning message

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 5:58 am
by surachai.ch
I'm running Nagios XI demo by manually install on RHEL5 and create monitoring website using configuration wizard. I found the status information for "Ping" service as below.
Warning: This plugin must be either run as root or setuid root.

Please help to verfiy.

BR,
Surachai C.

Re: check "Ping" return warning message

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 8:39 am
by scottwilkerson
can you run the following and report the output

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ls -l /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_icmp

Re: check "Ping" return warning message

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 9:39 pm
by surachai.ch
Yes, you are right. I have change owner of check_icmp to root and it works now. Thank you for your suggestion.