ping output error in 1.4a plugins in Fedora Core 2

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ricardo David Martins [mailto:ricardo.martins at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 2:00 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] ping output error in 1.4a plugins in Fedora
Core 2
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i am having problems with ping output on a fedora core 2 platform.
> It gives me unknown state for check_ping service because its answer is
> /bin/ping -n U -c 5 xx.xx.xx.xx . Of course its 1.4a plugins (in 1.2
> with perf data).
> 
> I have the same thing on Arch Linux and everything works great.
> 
> I bet this is a bug. I've seen some posts but no real answer to this.
> How can i fix this?


I would be surprised if /bin/ping was executable by the nagios user. You
probably need to:

chmod u+s /bin/ping
chmod 755 /bin/ping

This is almost always the reason.

--
Marc 



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