[Nagiosplug-devel] check_rta (next check_icmp) + public key

[Joe Rhett]

Ugh, sorry I spoke way too soon.  Soon after I implemented it, everything
started coming back with NaN results :-(

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:08:02PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote:
> Good news.  This one compiles and runs on FreeBSD ;-)
> 
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 12:28:24AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > Finished. :) check_icmp-1.0 is now available, and check_rta is 
> > officially dropped.
> > 
> > I've started using the new check_icmp in production in our own system to 
> > get a proper evaluation of it. So far so good.
> > 
> > It compiles silently and cleanly with all possible warning-flags enabled 
> > on Linux (Owl 1.1 and current, Debian 3.0, Fedora Core 3, RedHat 7.2, 
> > SuSE 9.0), FreeBSD 5.2.1, NetBSD 1.6, Tru64 Unix 5.1b and HP-UX (11i v2 
> > and 11i 11.11).
> > 
> > All the above had a decently fresh version of gcc installed, except 
> > Linux Owl, which was gcc 2.95.3.
> > 
> > Under Tru64 Unix 4.0g it compiles with warnings for %llu printf format 
> > strings (for certain debug strings).
> > 
> > According to reports it also compiles nicely under solaris 2.9.
> > 
> > I only have root access to linux systems right now, so I haven't been 
> > able to run very many tests, but timings are completely consistent with 
> > system ping and all the features and logic works as expected.
> > 
> > It's available at;
> > http://oss.op5.se/nagios/check_icmp-1.0.tar.gz
> > http://devel.op5.se/oss/check_icmp-1.0.tar.gz
> > 
> > I'll also upload the source file to the SF tracker page.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > 
> > Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > >Ahoy all.
> > >
> > >To all those who have tested and commented on check_rta, thanks.
> > >
> > >I've fixed the SIGSEGV crash (I think, at least I can't reproduce it on 
> > >my own system any more), and some timing issues causing check_rta to 
> > >time out prematurely with an obscene packet loss even when rta is below 
> > >1ms.
> > >
> > >Inspired by the check_traceroute (or check_route, I don't remember) perl 
> > >plugin, I've also added an -l flag to specify time-to-live on outgoing 
> > >packets. It should work where the perl plugin does.
> > >
> > >The latest version is available from the usual places;
> > >https://devel.op5.se/oss
> > >http://oss.op5.se/nagios
> > >
> > >For those of you who have offered me access to Solaris and *BSD boxes, 
> > >I've attached my public SSH-key. The following commands should work to 
> > >allow me in without a password.
> > >useradd -m exon
> > >mkdir ~exon/.ssh
> > >cp id_dsa.pub ~exon/.ssh/authorized_keys
> > >chown exon:exon -R ~exon/.ssh
> > >chmod 700 -R ~exon/.ssh
> > >
> > >Send me a private email with the hostname/ip-address when you're done. 
> > >I'd like to spend this day testing everything out so it can be in the 
> > >1.4-release of the plugins and we can finally get rid of check_ping and 
> > >the other output parsing ping plugins.
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > -- 
> > Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
> > OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
> > Lead Developer
> > 
> > 
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> Joe Rhett
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