[Nagiosplug-devel] check_ping patch for 'RedHat'

[Patrick Allen]

After hacking away at the old netsaint check_ping plugin to patch for 
yet another ping format i eventually gave up and installed Nagios.

To my pleasure the "OK" (success) message now works however under RedHat 
(9) i found that the "CRITICAL" message failed with a:

 > Error: Could not interpret output from ping command

This was simply resolved with the following:

 > || sscanf (input_buffer, "%*d packets transmitted, %*d received, +%*d 
errors, %d%% packet loss", &pl) == 1

The fuller system profile is:
RedHat 9.0

uname -a
   Linux <host> 2.4.20-19.9 #1 Tue Jul 15 17:18:13 EDT 2003 i686 i686 
i386 GNU/Linux

ping -V
   ping utility, iputils-ss020927

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