Yet another ping problem

Jeff Bilder JBilder at netrixllc.com
Mon Nov 18 18:39:15 CET 2002


I am running Red Hat 8.0 and I did the changes and am still getting these results.

[nagios at netrix libexec]$ ./check_ping -H <ip_address>-w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1
yes
Error: Could not interpret output from ping command


Thanks!

- Jeff



>>> Kenton Smith <ksmith at chartwelltechnology.com> 11/15/02 04:21PM >>>
That simple huh? Sheesh...is there a forest out there?

It's created other problems but I think it just because I've played
around with my config files so much.
Thanks a million!

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 14:27, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:

    Do these commands as root:
     
       chown root /bin/ping
       chmod u+s /bin/ping
     
    then try again.

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Kenton Smith [mailto:ksmith at chartwelltechnology.com] 
        Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 3:21 PM
        To: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]
        Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
        Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Yet another ping problem
        
        
        Even if I run nagios as root the ping plugin isn't working. 
        
        On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 14:12, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote: 

            I'm running RH 7.3, and /bin/ping is setuid root.
            
            jc
            
            > -----Original Message-----
            > From: Kenton Smith [mailto:ksmith at chartwelltechnology.com] 
            > Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 2:35 PM
            > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
            > Subject: [Nagios-users] Yet another ping problem
            > 
            > 
            > I can't believe I have to write to the mailing list about a ping
            > problem. I looked everywhere though and can't find anything similar to
            > what is happening to me.
            > I'm running RH8 with Nagios 1.0b6 and installed from the RPM's.
            > Everything works fine including plugins except for ping. I 
            > think it's a
            > permissions problem because when I ping as any user other than root I
            > get this message - ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted.
            > If I run - 
            > ./check_ping -H 192.168.1.1 -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1
            > I get this error - 
            > /bin/ping -n -U -c 1 192.168.1.1
            > Error: Could not interpret output from ping command
            > 
            > I assume the "could not interpret" error comes from the fact that it's
            > being passed the previous error. I've also tried this with older
            > versions of ping (RH7.2), which is the way I had it setup on 
            > my 7.3 box.
            > I can't for the life of me get ping to work as another user other than
            > root. I even went so far as to change permissions and ownership to
            > nagios and got the same error.
            > 
            > Any advice?
            > 
            > Kenton Smith
            > 
            > 
            > 
            > 
            > 
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Kenton Smith, GSEC
Systems Administrator
Chartwell Technology Inc.
700, 407 2 St. S.W. 
Calgary, AB T2P 2Y3 
CANADA 
P 403 261-6619 
F 403 237-5816 
E ksmith at chartwelltechnology.com 
W www.chartwelltechnology.com


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