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Re: [cobalt-security] PING



You can find Netsaint at freshmeat.net  Ping will only tell you if your network
is up, Netsaint will actually monitor specific services dns, ftp, httpd, etc.

-- John


Theodore Jones wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Can anyone recommend the Netsaint product for what it does, or any other
> monitoring system that will email to a pager or cellphone if a site/sites go
> down?
>
> Does anybody have the Netsaint URL?
>
> ~ Theo
>
> Kevin D wrote:
>
> > Due to security risks (i.e. denial of service attacks) the ping program is
> > restricted to root access only. Su to root and chown the netsaint executable
> > to root and you should be fine.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Samuel A. Winchenbach" <samwinchenbach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <cobalt-security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 9:58 AM
> > Subject: [cobalt-security] PING
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I am installing netsaint on a Raq 3 and have run into a bit of a problem.
> > > NetSaint uses ping to determine if a given host is "alive" by pinging it
> > > every so often.  It appears as though ping can only be executed as root.
> > > I have verified that the permissions are set correctly (755) but for some
> > > unknown reason the user "admin" cannot use the ping command.   Any help on
> > > this would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > _______________________________________
> > >
> > > Samuel Ace Winchenbach
> > > St. George Consulting Group
> > > http://www.stgeorgeconsulting.com
> > > (207) 372-0648
> > > samwinchenbach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > >
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