ping UNKNOWN status

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 01:00, Felix F. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It looks like the resource file did not have read permission but I fixed
> that. The problem still persists.
> 
> I've tried using:
> 
> check_command                   check_ping!100.0!20!500.0!60!
> and
> check_command                   check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
> 
> Both show PING as unknown.
> 
> The /bin/ping command is owned by root but has world execution enabled.


is it setuid root as well?

> Sorry about the forum post. Didn't know they were linked. 

Hmm. Neither did I. Now I see why we ended up with two posts.

--
Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Karl
> DeBisschop
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 10:36 PM
> To: matrix4050
> Cc: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] ping UNKNOWN status
> 
> On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 14:51, matrix4050 wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > The check_ping command doesn't seem to work with nagios. 
> > 
> > The "Status Information" is "/bin/ping -n -U -c 5 IP_HERE" and the
> STATUS of my ping command is UNKNOWN even though i tried to execute the
> above command manually and I got all the correct output.
> 
> Someone recently had a similar problem, and discovered thar resource.cfg
> was not rreadble by nagios.
> 
> Also, when you ran the command, was it as nagios? Some systems place
> limits on who can execute ping, and nagios is typically confugured as a
> non-priveleged user (it should be configured as such for security
> reasons).
> 
> BTW, you later post was not needed, and the HTML should be avoided as
> well. Waiting a few hours for an answer to appear on a weekend should
> not be too much of a trial for you, especially given how much you have
> paid for the support.
> 
> --
> Karl
> 
> 
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