Problem on check_ping

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Chris Wilson
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 7:43 AM
> To: bombadur
> Cc: Nagios Users
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Problem on check_ping
> 
> Hi Bombadur,
> 
> > I think (hope) that until this moment cofiguration went good, but I
have
> > a problem testing for the check_ping plugin, which maybe it's the
most
> > important for their needings:
> >
> > # /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping -H 192.168.1.25 -w 3000.0,80%
-c
> > 5000.0,100% -p 1
> > /bin/ping -n -U -w 10 -c 1 192.168.1.25
> > CRITICAL - Could not interpret output from ping command
> 
> You could try the check_icmp plugin. It's supposed to be more
reliable.
> You will probably need to make it suid root (chmod u+s check_icmp)
> before it will work, though.

And make sure SELinux allows for its execution by non-root users.

--
Marc


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