Trouble with ping

[Marc Powell]

Mark Price <mailto:mark at tqhosting.com> wrote:
> Hi, I am a new NAGIOS user and am unable to get the ping service to
> work. 

[snippage]

> 
> the problem is that the pings always go into an unknown state in
> nagios.  In the "status information" for the service, it says:
> /bin/ping -n -U -c 5 209.120.238.150, but I don't have that /bin/ping
> command anywhere in my .cfg files.  It was in cgi.cfg but I blanked
> it out.   
> 
> It shows the same thing in my nagios.log:
> 
> [1082654666] SERVICE ALERT: host1;PING;UNKNOWN;SOFT;1;/bin/ping -n -U
> -c 5 10.1.1.1
> [1082654726] SERVICE ALERT: host1;PING;UNKNOWN;HARD;2;/bin/ping -n -U
> -c 5 10.1.1.1
> 
> If I ping that host from the commandline on this box, it works fine.
> 
> any ideas?  thanks


Check_ping is a fancy wrapper to /bin/ping. More than likely /bin/ping
can only be run as root. You'll need to suid the executable so that
other users can run it. chmod 4755 /bin/ping should do it for you.

--
Marc 


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