#include "common.h"
#include "plugin.h"
-#include "configfile.h"
#include "utils_complain.h"
#include <netinet/in.h>
# include <netdb.h> /* NI_MAXHOST */
#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_SYS_CAPABILITY_H
+# include <sys/capability.h>
+#endif
+
#include <oping.h>
#ifndef NI_MAXHOST
"Will use a timeout of %gs.", ping_timeout);
}
+#if defined(HAVE_SYS_CAPABILITY_H) && defined(CAP_NET_RAW)
+ if (check_capability (CAP_NET_RAW) != 0)
+ {
+ if (getuid () == 0)
+ WARNING ("ping plugin: Running collectd as root, but the CAP_NET_RAW "
+ "capability is missing. The plugin's read function will probably "
+ "fail. Is your init system dropping capabilities?");
+ else
+ WARNING ("ping plugin: collectd doesn't have the CAP_NET_RAW capability. "
+ "If you don't want to run collectd as root, try running \"setcap "
+ "cap_net_raw=ep\" on the collectd binary.");
+ }
+#endif
+
return (start_thread ());
} /* }}} int ping_init */