[Nagiosplug-devel] check_ping: Could not interpret output from ping command

[Andreas Ericsson]

Julien TOUCHE wrote:
> 
>>> That's a known problem.
>>> On certain platforms ping outputs to STDERR and on some to STDOUT.
>>> check_ping only checks one of these to parse the output, can't remember
>>> which one. Been like that for a while, noone patched check_ping yet 
>>> though :/
> 
> 
> is there any plan to correct this ?
> 

Yes. Sometime (soon, hopefully) the check_icmp plugin will be included 
in the standard distribution, and the check_ping plugin will be gotten 
rid of. check_icmp doesn't spawn an external app to do the dirty work 
for it so it will work on any platform that supports raw sockets (even 
windows XP, if you compile it with djgpp).

In the mean-time, you can download it from http://oss.op5.se/nagios. 
Make a symlink from your current check_ping to the check_icmp program 
and you won't have to change the configuration a bit.

Cheers.

> thanks
> Regards
> 
>         Julien
> 
> 
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