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 > > Network Engineer @ InTouch N.V. > Middenweg 76 > 1097 BS Amsterdam > Tel: +31 (0)20 6752060 > Fax: +31 (0)20 6758429 > > -=[Assumption is the mother of all f*ckups]=- > > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
