Re: [CentOS] OT: Ping failed (SOLVED)

2008-12-21 Thread Jun Salen
>If the permissions on /bin/ping were incorrect, it may mean that >your system has been cracked. You probably should check by >running ``rpm -V iputils'' which will show changes in any files >in the package. Thanks Bill for your concern and tips, but it is me who accidentally change the file per

Re: [CentOS] OT: Ping failed (SOLVED)

2008-12-18 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008, Jun Salen wrote: >>From what I can see nagios' check_ping monitor executes /bin/ping, >>in which case you need to make sure /bin/ping is owned by root >>and is setuid (chmod u+s /bin/ping) >> >>nate >That solved it. Same with file permission with mount, umount, su, and >ping6

Re: [CentOS] OT: Ping failed (SOLVED)

2008-12-18 Thread Jun Salen
>From what I can see nagios' check_ping monitor executes /bin/ping, >in which case you need to make sure /bin/ping is owned by root >and is setuid (chmod u+s /bin/ping) > >nate That solved it. Same with file permission with mount, umount, su, and ping6. Thank you very much. Get your new E

Re: [CentOS] OT: Ping failed

2008-12-18 Thread nate
Jun Salen wrote: > Hi, > > The Ping service in Nagios has "unknown" status which was previously OK, > this happens after i messed up some of the files owner and accidentally > change it to Apache. Although I restored most of the file permission back to > Root, the problem above still appears which

[CentOS] OT: Ping failed

2008-12-17 Thread Jun Salen
Hi, The Ping service in Nagios has "unknown" status which was previously OK, this happens after i messed up some of the files owner and accidentally change it to Apache. Although I restored most of the file permission back to Root, the problem above still appears which I suspect is due to permi