Werk #7774: Fix installation issue on older debian based distros

Component

Site management

Title

Fix installation issue on older debian based distros

Date

Jun 10, 2019

Level

Prominent Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

2.0.0i1	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.6.0b2	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

The werk #7344 introduced compatibility issues with Linux setups that don't support linux capabilities (for different reasons). One reason may be a kernel that does not support the capabilities.

We have added a fallback to the Checkmk debian packages that tries to use the linux capabilities (as described in #7344). Once that fails it falls back to setting the SETUID bit on the binaries, just like Checkmk did it before.

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