[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-Bugs-2896201 ] check_ping depends on iputils-ping

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Bugs item #2896201, was opened at 2009-11-11 15:37
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Category: General plugin execution
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Jan Wagner (cyco_dd)
Assigned to: Thomas Guyot-Sionnest (dermoth)
Summary: check_ping depends on iputils-ping

Initial Comment:
The following Bugreport we got against our debian package:

Hi,

it seems that the nagios related packages need an ping command available.
They choose iputils-ping, which is rather linux specific.
Could be possible to switch (at least on non-linux)
to inetutils-ping (already available) or fping (modulo #555398 available).
It will help to kfreebsd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64 and hurd architectures.

Thanks for considering it.

You can track the bugreport via
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=555532

check_ping could maybe rewritten/patched to use liboping [1]?

Thanks and kind regards, Jan.
[1] http://verplant.org/liboping/

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>Comment By: Thomas Guyot-Sionnest (dermoth)
Date: 2009-12-04 15:48

Message:
Gotchya. --with-ping[6]-command expected three arguments - two numeric and
one string. I try to detect it now (attached patch) - will go upstream it
it works for you...

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Comment By: Jan Wagner (cyco_dd)
Date: 2009-11-23 10:47

Message:
Unfortunately I have. :( Maybe you can have a look:

normal debian package - using iputils-ping and compile following flags:

                --with-ping-command="/bin/ping -n -U -w %d -c %d %s" \
                --with-ping6-command="/bin/ping6 -n -U -w %d -c %d %s" \

sid:~# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping 127.0.0.1 -w 2,20% -c 5,30%
PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.00 ms|
rta=0.000000ms;2.000000;5.000000;0.000000 pl=0%;20;30;0

Okay ... thats fine, like always.

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pc1 - using iputils-ping and following compile flags:

                --with-ping-command="/bin/ping -n -c %d %s" \
                --with-ping6-command="/bin/ping6 -n -c %d %s" \

sid:/tmp# LANG=C /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping 127.0.0.1 -w 2,20% -c

5,30%
Speicherzugriffsfehler

Okay ... here are just the ping commands wrong

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pc2 - using iputils-ping and without specific compile flags (iputils-ping

installed at compile time), but:

checking for ICMP ping syntax... /bin/ping -n -U -w %d -c %d %s
checking for ICMPv6 ping syntax... /bin/ping6 -n -U -w %d -c %d %s

sid:/tmp# LANG=C /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping 127.0.0.1 -w 2,20% -c

5,30%
PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.00 ms|
rta=0.000000ms;2.000000;5.000000;0.000000 pl=0%;20;30;0

Thats also fine, the commands are autodetected.

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pc3 - using inetutils-ping and without specific compile flags
(inetutils-ping 
installed at compile time), but:

checking for ICMP ping syntax... /bin/ping -n -c %d %s
checking for ICMPv6 ping syntax... /bin/ping6 -n -c %d %s

sid:/tmp# LANG=C /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping 127.0.0.1 -w 2,20% -c

5,30%
PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.00 ms|
rta=0.000000ms;2.000000;5.000000;0.000000 pl=0%;20;30;0

Looks great, command are autodetected and inetutils-ping works

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pc4 - using inetutils-ping and the following compile flags (inetutils-ping

NOT installed at compile time):

                --with-ping6-command="/bin/ping6 -n -c %d %s" \
                --with-ping-command="/bin/ping -n -c %d %s" \

sid:/tmp# LANG=C /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping 127.0.0.1 -w 2,20% -c

5,30%
Speicherzugriffsfehler

This is the point I don't get. I'm using the same commands like the once
when 
they where autodetected, but check_ping segfaults .... I'm missing
something?

Thanks for your help, Jan.

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Comment By: Thomas Guyot-Sionnest (dermoth)
Date: 2009-11-11 17:29

Message:
Normally configure decides which ping command and syntax to use, so it
really depend on which packages you have installed. You can force the
command to use with --with-ping-command=SYNTAX and
--with-ping6-command=SYNTAX.

An easy way to find the syntax it to look at a generated config.h  when
only the wanted ping commands are available. Search for #define
PING_COMMAND and #define PING6_COMMAND.

Let me know if you have any problem with specific ping variants.

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