Package: smokeping Version: 2.7.3-4.1 Severity: important Hi folks,
Out of the box, smokeping is configured to use fping, and to ping localhost by default. This won't work without manual intervention because fping requires privileges: it's not set suid, and the smokeping system service runs as user:smokeping (since 2.7.3-2). Fping docs says it needs CAP_NET_RAW (or the running GID to be in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ping_group_range) This worked by accident, I guess, in 2.7.3-1 when the service ran as root. I'm not sure about earlier. I had a working install from an older version (possibly 2.7.3-1) which has been broken since, and I've reproduced the OOTB behaviour after a purge in preparing this bug report. At the very least, I think users should be given a clue about ways to solve this themselves, but ideally, the default config would do something useful OOTB. If you add AmbientCapabilities=CAP_NET_RAW to the systemd unit, it can invoke fping properly without being root.
