check_ping problem

Greg Vickers g.vickers at qut.edu.au
Mon Oct 13 07:49:41 CEST 2003


Tom,

1. you are using colon ':' characters, not comma ',' characters
2. you only need one % sign on the command line

Give that a shot.

Greg

At 03:24 PM 13/10/2003, Tom Diehl wrote:
>Hi all,
>I am trying to get nagios working properly but I am encountering a problem
>with the check_ping command. I have seen a few posts in the archinve with
>the error message I am seeing but so far none have helped. I am trying to
>run nagios on a Red Hat Linux 8.0 system. Nagios version is: 1.1-3. I am
>also running version 1.1-3 of nagios plugins. The following is what I am
>getting:
>
>(icarus pts6) # /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping -H 192.168.0.3 -w 
>10:20%% -c 60:100%%
>You've got a big problem buddy! You need more args!!!
>Cannot open pipe: (icarus pts6) #
>
>What pipe?? What args does it need that I am not supplying??
>
>Is there some documentation that explains this error message in more detail?
>I have looked but either it does not exist or I am just plain blind.
>
>I tried the above with both single and double % signs but the error is exactly
>the same no matter what I try.
>
>On a related note is there some doc that explains the exact syntax of
>services.cfg?? In particular I am trying to understand what the following
>means:
>notification_options        c,r
>     check_command           check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
>
>If there is some doc that I am missing please point me to it. I am very 
>willing
>to rtfm if I can find the proper fm.
>
>Regards,
>
>--
>......Tom               Registered Linux User #14522    http://counter.li.org
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>
>
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