On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:06:59AM +0100, Dennis Roos wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 09:04 +0100, Evert Meulie wrote:
> > Warning for all!
> >
> > Even though Nagios 2.x eventually compiled on my system, I ended up
> > with a defective check_ping. And since check_ping is used by Nagios
> > to check whether a host is up or not, this causes MAJOR problems...
>
> For ping you need to enable a specific capability. I have nagios 2.0
> running fine within a vserver ;)
on 2.x kernels, the raw_icmp capability replaces the
insecure CAP_NET_RAW. raw_icmp is given by default
on mainline util-vserver since (at least) 0.30.208
(and we now have 0.30.209)
> What I did to get it to work was:
> * Add CAP_NET_RAW to the capabilities of the vserver (in /etc/vservers)
again, are we talking about 1.2.x or 2.x kernels here?
> * start the vserver
> * modify configure to check for a hostname instead of 127.0.0.1
> * compile nagios
> * configure nagios
> * run nagios :)
TIA,
Herbert
> --
> Regards,
> Dennis Roos
>
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