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

[Paweł Gołaszewski]

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

Why not to use adm group for that purpose? In that group are only 
ping/traceroute/mtr utilities...

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 icmp group is obsolete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

For ping. AFAIR it was changed for compatibility with bigger Unices... but 
I can be wrong, it was long time ago.

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