check_ping works fine from command line but cgi shows ping resultsas "unknown"

[Larry Naves]

I am still having this problem after replacing check_ping (1.2) with (1.3).
My problem is a little different though check_ping works great when the host
is reachable, if the host is unreachable (literally not because of a down
parent) the check returns /bin/ping -n -U -c 5 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and the
status is UNKNOWN. Why does the plugin not just return host-down or
unreachable, etc. Should I try a different check_ping?

>Great!!!
> Thanks Davy!
> I unpacked and compiled the nagios-plugins 1.3.1 and extracted >the 
> check_ping into my libexec/ dir  and everything started to work >again.
 
> Davy Gaussen escribió:
> 
> >Hi,
 >
 >I had this problem to, try to install the nagios-plugins version 1.3.x,
the
 >new ones have compatibilities issues with the ping command of some new
 >system.
 >It worked fine for me.
 >
 >Davy
 >
 >----- Original Message -----
 >From: "Cristobal Sabroe Yde" <cris at cd...>
 >To: <nagios-users at li...>
 >Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:02 PM
 >Subject: [Nagios-users] Re: check_ping works fine from command line but
cgi
 >shows ping resultsas "unknown"
 >
 >
 >  
 >
 >>Hi, I have the exact same problem running SuSE 9.1.
 >>
 >>I can use ping and check_ping under the nagios user in command line but
 >>the cgi returns:
 >>PING    UNKNOWN   ... /bin/ping -n -U -c 5 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
 >>
 >>Nagios 2.0b1 (tried 2.0b2 as well)
 >>Plugins 1.4,
 >>Dist: SuSE 9.1
 >>uname -a:  Linux moni 2.6.5-7.147-default #1 Thu Jan 27 09:19:29 UTC
 >>2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
 >>
 >>If anyone could solve this problem, please let me know.
 >>Thanks!
 >>------------------------
 >>
 >>Dirk,
 >>
 >> have you tried running ping (or the plugin) as user nagios or as root?
 >>
 >> Probably it"s an access rights problem... IIRC Fedora activates selinux
 >> enhancements and thus it might be necessary to change these to allow the
 >> nagios user access to the network interface.
 >>
 >> Arno
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>    
 >>
 >
 >
 >  
 >
 
 

Larry Wayne Naves, Jr. "Jay"
Systems Analyst
Computer Sciences Corporation /
Alabama Supercomputer Authority 

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