<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> OK, I have discovered the root cause of the problems with the ping syntax check (located at or about line 14337) in the configure script. The test pings loopback with a series of different accepted syntax strings, looking for one that returns true on "^round-trip|^rtt". The kicker here was that my machines do not respond to ping but multiple forms of the syntax were ultimately acceptable, there was just 100% packet loss so no rtt information was available to display. So I changed this to be <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.yahoo.com">www.yahoo.com</a> and it went through just fine. Either the configure script needs to not care about the success of the ping packets and just look for something that returns bad syntax (not safe/accurate enough) of ping a host that is known to respond. <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.yahoo.com">www.yahoo.com</a> still responds but someone could set up <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.nagios.org">www.nagios.org</a> to respond and use that instead of the lookback. Tom [root@nova downloads]# ping -n -c 1 127.0.0.1 PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms [root@nova downloads]# ping -n -c 1 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.terranovum.com">www.terranovum.com</a> PING nova.terranovum.com (64.213.105.104) 56(84) bytes of data. --- nova.terranovum.com ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms [root@nova downloads]# ping -n -c 1 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.yahoo.com">www.yahoo.com</a> PING <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.yahoo.akadns.net">www.yahoo.akadns.net</a> (68.142.226.56) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 68.142.226.56: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=11.8 ms --- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.yahoo.akadns.net">www.yahoo.akadns.net</a> ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 11.866/11.866/11.866/0.000 ms Tom Loebach wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20050220172000.56392.qmail@web30708.mail.mud.yahoo.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Tom, Are you trying to build this on cygwin? The configure script will hang if you installed the cygwin ping package. Let me know if this is the case and I can help you with a lot more detail. If you are building on a different platform, you will need to edit the configure script to bypass the ping statement that hangs the script for your platform. -tom --- Thomas Bolioli <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tpblists@terranovum.com"><tpblists@terranovum.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">The configure script for the plugins (1.4) hangs at the last line there for ping syntax. Anyone know why? Also, I have stock 1.02 config files (I edited the sample ones) I would like to use. Can I use them with 2.0b with little issue or should I start from scratch? Thanks, Tom checking for strtol... yes checking for strtoul... yes checking return type of socket size... int checking for ps... /bin/ps checking for ps syntax... /bin/ps -axwo 'stat uid ppid vsz rss pcpu comm args' checking for ping... /bin/ping checking for ping6... /usr/bin/ping6 checking for ICMP ping syntax... </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">ATTACHMENT part 2 application/x-pkcs7-signature </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">name=smime.p7s __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail">http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail</a> ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click">http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click</a> _______________________________________________ Nagiosplug-help mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagiosplug-help">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagiosplug-help</a> ::: Please include plugins version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>