On Thursday 24 May 2007 11:52, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:58:23AM +0200, Loic Dachary wrote: > > sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > One could argue that I have poor diagnostics skills. However, I very > > much doubt that the following use case is plausible: > > > > - Use check_dhcp for the first time > > - See it fail > > - Read nagios-plugin README.Debian > > - Add the suid bit > > It would probably help if the plugins would print an helpful error > message such as "could not access raw socket, no root privileges".
i was thinking the same thing myself, it'd probably save some folks a bit of wasted time and i don't see any reason not to. i'll make a fix upstream and bring in the patch later. sean
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