X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?p=liboping.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=8611d7c65f748db7aa37be32b4126e8811cc8c02;hp=5488fb4c66ea3c498c2222d535c5cc8cba817813;hb=HEAD;hpb=3e5fb1f13c06c2fafdbeaaf47f0716854a089751 diff --git a/README b/README index 5488fb4..8611d7c 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ liboping – Library to ping IPv4 and IPv6 hosts in parallel ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ -http://verplant.org/liboping/ +http://noping.cc/ About ━━━━━ @@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ Permissions (which is strongly suggested), you won't be able to use the binaries as a normal user, because you won't have the permission to open raw sockets. + The “install” target will automatically try fix this, if it is run with UID~0 + (as user root). When on Linux, the capabilities described below will be + added. On other UNIXes the traditional Set-UID method (also described below) + is used instead. The build system will not abort if this fails, because there + are file systems which do not support either method. Also, the Debian + packaging system and possibly other scenarios only act as if they were + running as root. + Linux ━━━━━ On Linux, the preferred method is to assign the required “capability” to the