Problem with check_ping

[Marc Powell]

It looks like /bin/ping isn't executable as the nagios user. You probably need to just suid it to root --

chmod u+s /bin/ping
chmod 644 /bin/ping

--
Marc

________________________________________
From: Quenton [mailto:Quenton_help at gmx.de] 
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 3:36 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Problem with check_ping

Hi I have a problem with the check_ping command,
the status of my hosts is allways down even if all the services are all
OK , the error in my log says:
 
could not interpret out put from ping command.

[snip]

Aug 12 19:07:38 amsterdam nagios: HOST ALERT: amsterdam;DOWN;SOFT;9;/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 10.0.24.19 
Aug 12 19:07:38 amsterdam nagios: HOST ALERT: amsterdam;DOWN;HARD;10;/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 10.0.24.19 
Aug 12 19:07:38 amsterdam nagios: HOST NOTIFICATION: nagios;amsterdam;DOWN;host-notify-by-epager;/bin/ping -n -U -c 1 10.0.24 
Could Anybody give me an advice ?
 
 



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