SPECS: iputils.spec - group icmp for /bin/ping*

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On Monday 07 March 2005 11:00, Paweł Gołaszewski wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Elan [windows-1257] Ruusamäe wrote:
> > > > -%attr(4754,root,adm) /bin/ping*
> > > > +%attr(4754,root,icmp) /bin/ping*
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Wrong.
> > >
> > > rev. 1.30
> > >
> > > It should be like that.
> >
> > why wrong?
> >
> > /bin/ping is for daemons, /usr/bin/ping is for lusers (by mmazur@#pld)
>
> what?
> /usr/bin/ping is non-suid ping. It does not send icmp messages and is
> often not useful.
> /bin/ping is regular, icmp ping.
i need to use icmp ping, /bin/ping for the nagios daemon

> icmp group is obsolete
what for it was used before?

-- 
glen