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

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On Wednesday 09 March 2005 14:51, 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
>
> Why not to use adm group for that purpose? In that group are only
> ping/traceroute/mtr utilities...
are you sure?
i have few config files in same group in my system (altho the group membership 
wasn't from PLD).

-- 
glen