iputils release ss020124 and check_ping

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 07:01, Freddy Frouin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 	Does someone have successfuly hack the check_ping.c source to
> 	make it work with the ping version of package provided with
> 	iputils release ss020124 ? The differences are in the return
> 	syntax of the ping binary.
> 
> 	I notice 2 changes that impact configure.in for plugins and
> 	netsaint/nagios engine and check_ping.c:
> 
> 	Old iputils version (ss001110)
> 	5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
> 	round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 0.692/0.911/1.469/0.285 ms
> 
> 	New one
> 	5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% loss, time 3998ms
> 	rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.202/0.233/0.264/0.027 ms
> 
> 	I modified the configure.in successfuly, preventing it to
> 	block when checking ping syntax, yet I did not get success
> 	with check_ping.c, even if I modified the following lines
> 	to allow good sscanf extraction:
> 
> 	sscanf (input_buffer, "%*d packets transmitted, %*d received, %d%% loss", &pl) == 1
> 
> 	instead of
> 	sscanf (input_buffer, "%*d packets transmitted, %*d packets received, %d%% packet loss", &pl) == 1
> 
> 	AND
> 
> 	sscanf (input_buffer, "rtt min/avg/max/mdev = %*f/%f/%*f/%*f", &rta) == 1
> 	instead of
> 	sscanf (input_buffer, "round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = %*f/%f/%*f/%*f", &rta) == 1
> 
> 	Does someone understand why it does not work with this modifications ?

I don't see why your mods don't work. But the work has already been
done, I think. Have you tried the code form the current CVS tree?

It works for me on RH8.0, which uses the new iputils.

-- 
Karl DeBisschop <karl at debisschop.net>



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