Hi Sven, On 23-07-18 13:31, Sven Hartge wrote: > Please enable support for Linux capabilities in spine.
Thanks for the suggestion. > This is useful so one can use the "ICMP Ping" uptime checker in spine > without needing to set spine setuid-root, just cap_net_raw is enough to > get this working. Sounds cool. I have zero knowledge of Linux capabilities though. Could you provide a link to some good (for the noob) documentation on this? > Currently this is not enabled because libcap-dev is missing as > build-dependency. Is that all that's needed? > An additional dependency on libcap2-bin is necessary to allow "setcap > cap_net_raw+ep /usr/sbin/spine" to work in postinst. Can you elaborate? I guess you mean the binary package needs that dependency manually added by me. And I guess that I should add some code to the postinst. Where should it go (or doesn't it matter)? Any drawbacks of doing this for all systems? Paul
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