Yet another ping problem

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Could you run check_ping -v + other options and post the results..

-sg

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Jeff Bilder wrote:

> I am running Mandrake 9.0 and I did the changes listed below and am still getting these results.
> 
> [nagios at netrix libexec]$ ./check_ping -H <ip_address>-w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1
> yes
> Error: Could not interpret output from ping command
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> >>> Kenton Smith <ksmith at chartwelltechnology.com> 11/15/02 04:21PM >>>
> That simple huh? Sheesh...is there a forest out there?
> 
> It's created other problems but I think it just because I've played
> around with my config files so much.
> Thanks a million!
> 
> On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 14:27, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
> 
>     Do these commands as root:
>      
>        chown root /bin/ping
>        chmod u+s /bin/ping
>      
>     then try again.
> 
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: Kenton Smith [mailto:ksmith at chartwelltechnology.com] 
>         Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 3:21 PM
>         To: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]
>         Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
>         Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Yet another ping problem
>         
>         
>         Even if I run nagios as root the ping plugin isn't working. 
>         
>         On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 14:12, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote: 
> 
>             I'm running RH 7.3, and /bin/ping is setuid root.
>             
>             jc
>             
>             > -----Original Message-----
>             > From: Kenton Smith [mailto:ksmith at chartwelltechnology.com] 
>             > Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 2:35 PM
>             > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
>             > Subject: [Nagios-users] Yet another ping problem
>             > 
>             > 
>             > I can't believe I have to write to the mailing list about a ping
>             > problem. I looked everywhere though and can't find anything similar to
>             > what is happening to me.
>             > I'm running RH8 with Nagios 1.0b6 and installed from the RPM's.
>             > Everything works fine including plugins except for ping. I 
>             > think it's a
>             > permissions problem because when I ping as any user other than root I
>             > get this message - ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted.
>             > If I run - 
>             > ./check_ping -H 192.168.1.1 -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1
>             > I get this error - 
>             > /bin/ping -n -U -c 1 192.168.1.1
>             > Error: Could not interpret output from ping command
>             > 
>             > I assume the "could not interpret" error comes from the fact that it's
>             > being passed the previous error. I've also tried this with older
>             > versions of ping (RH7.2), which is the way I had it setup on 
>             > my 7.3 box.
>             > I can't for the life of me get ping to work as another user other than
>             > root. I even went so far as to change permissions and ownership to
>             > nagios and got the same error.
>             > 
>             > Any advice?
>             > 
>             > Kenton Smith
>             > 
>             > 
>             > 
>             > 
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> Kenton Smith, GSEC
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> 700, 407 2 St. S.W. 
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