[Pkg-nagios-changes] [pkg-monitoring-plugins] 44/51: README.Debian: Lazy documentation how to set capabilities

Jan Wagner waja at moszumanska.debian.org
Mon Jul 7 14:36:25 UTC 2014


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commit a75bd42dca4e920740dd41d9e704ec80b29b6020
Author: Jan Wagner <waja at cyconet.org>
Date:   Sun Jul 6 12:25:13 2014 +0200

    README.Debian: Lazy documentation how to set capabilities
---
 debian/README.Debian | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index b17f17a..da3eebb 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -74,11 +74,14 @@ perform. but, in the interest of the "safe default", these plugins will not
 be installed with the suid bit set.
 if setcap is able set the necessary capabilities, you are fine. if the setcap
 binary is not installed or not able to set the capabilities, you need to
-eighter set the capabilities (cap_net_raw+ep) for your own or provide root
-privileges.
+eighter set the capabilities (eg. cap_net_raw+ep) for your own or provide root
+privileges. You could go the lazy way and install libcap2-bin and run the
+following afterwards:
 
-there are two recommended ways about providing root privilegethis on your
-system:
+# /var/lib/dpkg/info/monitoring-plugins-basic.postinst configure
+
+there are two recommended ways about providing root priviles to your plugins
+on your system:
 
 - set the suid bit with dpkg-statoverride:
 

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