| Summary: | app-admin/collectd-5.1.0: use linux capabilities with configured ping-plugin | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Stef Simoens <stef.simoens> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge> |
| Status: | RESOLVED CANTFIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | bugs |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Because there is no support in portage for capabilities yet. If it works, it works by chance... http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_18c1565bed3e0d797ad7943d227cb77f.xml |
I'm not sure why the ebuild has " # use collectd_plugins_ping && setcap cap_net_raw+ep ${D}/usr/sbin/collectd # we cannot do this yet " because this allows me to run collectd as a non-priviledged user... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: - configure ping plugin - start collectd as non-priviledged user Actual Results: ping plugin: ping_host_add (www.google.com) failed: Operation not permitted Expected Results: no error message setcap cap_net_raw+ep `which collectd` allows the ping to succeed