Hi Glynn...
----- Original Message -----
From: Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>
To: Chris Knipe <cgknipe@mweb.co.za>
Cc: <linux-net@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: Perl Net::Ping; (Win32)
>
> Chris Knipe wrote:
>
> > This is coded in ActivePerl (Win32), and I am experiancing some weird
> > problems in regards to sending ICMP ping packets?
> >
> > If I do not send the packet as a user with Administrative rights, the
> > ping packet responds with a "Unknown Socket Error" message, but when
> > I do have Administrative rights, it works perfectly... Someone dont
> > perhaps know why / have some pointers for me as to why this is
> > happening? Is this a restriction in Windows NT itself??
>
> This sounds not unlike Unix, where you need root privilege to send
> ICMP packets.
>
See, this is why I took the change to mail this to a Linux mailing list. I
was not aware of this fact. Be it my own stupidity, or a lack of
documentation
As to the SETUID bit... I can (or am forced to), in otherword to have the
user which runs the script, to be apart of the "Administrative" NT Users
group.
Thanks a MILLION for the info. Very much appreciated, and valued.
> > The code looks as follows:
> >
> > # Do our monitoring here. These values are unique per DB
> > entry.
> > $ping = Net::Ping->new("icmp", 10);
> > if (!($ping->ping($IPAddr))) {
> > Notify_Mail($Email);
> > Notify_Admins($LineNumber);
> > };
> > $ping->close();
>
> Does this work on any Unix systems without root privilege?
Yup, it even works on NT machines *if* the running user has adminsitrative
rights.
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Regards,
Chris Knipe
Cell: (083) 430-8151
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