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 > > > _______________________________________ > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > cobalt-security mailing list > > > cobalt-security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > cobalt-security mailing list > > cobalt-security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security > > _______________________________________________ > cobalt-security mailing list > cobalt-security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security
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