ping from web application

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Wed Aug 19 12:24:14 UTC 2015


On 18.08.2015 20:09, Marko Cupać wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use web applicaton (net-mgmt/phpipam) which should have the ability
> to check hosts' availability via ping. I can even specify path to ping
> executable.
> 
> This functionality does not work on FreeBSD by default, and suggested
> workaround is to set setuid bit on /sbin/ping.

/sbin/ping DOES have setuid on FreeBSD by default, so phpipam fails for some other reason,
e.g. wrong path to ping executable or wrong (linux-like?) arguments.



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