[Nagiosplug-help] compiling plugins-1.4 on RH9/Fedora Core

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:18:44 +0000
Matthew Wilson <matthewwilson at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> Greetings list,
> I need to compile check_ping under Fedora Core and Redhat 9 to use the
> -i and -s options in order to circumvent some restrictions on our
> network.  So I do 
> # ./configure --with-ping-command='/bin/ping -n -i 2 -s 20 -c %s %d'
> # make all
> 
> which all appears to go fine.
> The plugin will print it's arguments fine too.  But when I try to make
> it ping I get a segmentation fault.  Here's my gdb output:
> 
> 
> > (gdb) run -H 212.56.237.172 -w 1000,10%% -c 2000,20%%
> > Starting program:
> > /home/mw/nagios/nagios-plugins-1.4.0alpha1/plugins/check_ping -H
> > 212.56.237.172 -w 1000,10%% -c 2000,20%%
> >  
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > 0x0018801b in strlen () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6

1) please provide exact version number for plugin (--version option)

2) My guess is that ac_cv_ping_packets_first is not getting set in
configure. I think that's a bug in configure - I see no way to specify
it. You should be able to edit config.h to include the line 

#define PING_PACKETS_FIRST 1

(If that line is already there, then my guess is wrong)

--
Karl