[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#1111349: Bug#1111349: monitoring-plugins-basic: check_icmp needs capabilities

[Bernhard Geier]

Am 18.08.25 um 08:55 schrieb Sebastiaan Couwenberg:

 >> Please consider adding the required capabilities, e.g. setcap cap_net_raw+ep /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_icmp
 >
 > The linux-sysctl-defaults package does this, see:
 >
 >   https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.en.html#ping-no-longer-runs-with-elevated-privileges

True, the package is much nicer than setcap.
I believe it would make sense that the monitoring-plugins-basic package would recommend linux-sysctl-defaults, just like iputils-ping does.