check_ping can't interpret output

[CLOSE Dave]

Hugo van der Kooij wrote:

> Hmm. Please read the various comments on the lifespan of fedora
releases
> on this and other mailinglists. Is this what you want in a corporate
> environment?

Totally irrelevant.

> I am a bit puzzled. Plugins are run as nagios user and not as apache
> user so why test as apache user. Unless your nagios setup deviates
quite
> a bit in this regard bt I find that rather unlikely at this momemt.

Yes, my error. However, running as user nagios behaved exactly the same
as user apache.

Marc Powell wrote:

> Beyond Hugo's comments about running as the user nagios, this would  
> seem to indicate that /bin/ping is not SUID root. Is it? If 
> not, chmod u+s /bin/ping.

Bingo! That was the problem. Thanks.

	Dave Close


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