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[Paul L. Allen]

Russell Miller writes: 

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> On Thursday 25 March 2004 20:52, Paul L. Allen wrote:

> I maintain that if ping fails with the nagios default ping options, either 
> ping is broken or the default nagios install is broken. 

Ping options and behaviour varies quite a lot from platform to platform
and the ping in RH8 is not broken, just different in behaviour from
what the plugin assumes.  The plugin isn't broken either, as there is
a mechanism for configuring it with the syntax required for whatever
flavour of ping you have.  The autoconfiguration could be better though,
by building in knowledge of the required ping syntax for various platforms. 

> Because upgrading the rpm solved the problem, it's pretty obvious that
> it the ping behavior was changed between 8 and 9, so I must assume that 
> they viewed the behavior in redhat 8 as a bug.

Nope, not a bug, because it behaved as documented.  They probably decided
that the new behaviour improved usability.  A possible reason for making
the change would be noticing that most people who use -c also need -w
rather than the other way around.  Another possible reason for making
the change would be noticing how many people get burned by using -c
in an automated check and ending up running out of process slots (this
happend to my boss recently). 

> Therefore, I believe that ping was indeed broken.

I disagree.  It worked as documented and if you read the man pages you
can do what is required, you just need another option. 

> The upgrade solved the problem

A bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut, though.  Also many hours waiting
for the upgrade instead of a few minutes reconfiguring and rebuilding
the plugins. 

-- 
Paul Allen
Softflare Support 




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