check_ping strangeness

[Jim Richardson]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 12:18:49PM -0800, Jim Richardson wrote:
>
>I have a new nagios setup (and I am a relative newbie) with one oddity. 
>
>No matter what user I run it as, check_ping fails thusly
>
>check_ping -H www.foobar.com -w1000,10% -c2000,50%
>
>You've got a big problem buddy! You need more args!!!
>Cannot open pipe: jim at east:
>
>This is on a Debian stable system, with Nagios compiled from tarball,
>most everything else seems to work, but this is horking up and I would
>like to fix it. The usual google searches did not suggest that this is a
>problem others have experienced. So I post the question here. 
>


OK, figured something out. For some reason, the check_ping compiled on
that host, doesn't work, but if I compile it elsewhere, and move the
check_ping there, it works. Dunno why yet. 

-- 
Jim Richardson     http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
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