[hobbit] fping failure

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Fri May 5 07:43:18 CEST 2006


On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 05:24:11PM -0500, Jeff Newman wrote:
> All,
> 
> Every now and then, all of my hosts go red on conn and fail, then come
> right back up. Below is and excerpt from bb-network.log. As you can
> see, it's at no
> set time, no set date, it just plain fails. Any thoughts?
> 
> 2006-03-06 23:20:29 Execution of '/usr/sbin/fping -Ae' failed with 
> error-code 98
> 2006-03-06 23:20:29 Cannot open fping output file

The "code 98" is an internal code used by Hobbit when it fails to
open two files that we use to pick up the output from fping. These
go in ~hobbit/data/tmp/ directory, and are called fping-std{out,err}.PID

Perhaps you're short of diskspace ?


Regards,
Henrik




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