[Xymon] fping error code 4

[Michael Beatty]

I have seen that happen to me when fping's permissions weren't set 
right, it can only be run by root.  I had to turn the sticky bit on, ie. 
rwsr-xr-x.

Michael Beatty
Sherwin-Williams
IT Analyst/Developer
michael.beatty at sherwin.com
216-515-7374

On 01/10/2013 02:17 AM, Japheth Cleaver wrote:
> On 1/9/2013 10:12 PM, Vernon Everett wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> Anybody seen something like this?
>> Execution of '/usr/local/sbin/fping -Ae' failed with error-code 4
>> /usr/local/sbin/fping: select : Invalid argument
> DIAGNOSTICS
>        Exit status is 0 if all the hosts are reachable, 1 if some 
> hosts were unreachable, 2 if any IP addresses were not found, 3 for 
> invalid command line arguments, and 4 for a system call failure.
>
> Not much comes to mind except some sort of hidiously invalid hostname 
> somehow making it in the xymon pipe through to fping, which fping is 
> then trying to select on. Is your xymon config pretty static or are 
> there are lot of changes happening to it all the time? Any other 
> unusual Solaris behavior going on, or anything weird with the (local) 
> fping compile?
>
> Regards,
>
> -jc
>
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