[hobbit] fping/hobbitping problem

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:48:35AM -0500, Steve wrote:
> But I get a red face on the bbtest column of the server and the message on 
> the detail page says that fping -Ae failed. 
> 
> My fping doesn't have a -A option. I went to the fping.org page and it 
> doesn't have a -A option, either. 

You mean "fping.com", I think. The man-page there is badly out of date,
and nowhere near the man-page you'll find inside the source archive
available at the same site. Try grabbing the fping.tar.gz file and build
that.

The "-Ae" option (from the *real* fping man-page):

  -A   Display targets by address rather than DNS name.
  -e   Show elapsed (round-trip) time of packets.

Hobbit was tested with fping version 2.4b2_to.


> I haven't been able to find where in the sources the flags are set for 
> fping to change it to something else (like -ae ???). 

The "-Ae" is built into Hobbit, but you can override the command Hobbit
uses via the FPINGCMD setting in hobbitserver.cfg.


> Then I reconfigged and remade hobbit to use hobbitping, but the problem 
> persists. 

Check the FPINGCMD setting in hobbitserver.cfg. Re-installing Hobbit
doesn't overwrite the config files (that would be bad for upgrades), so 
even though you changed the compile-time settings, the run-time ones are 
still picked up from hobbitserver.cfg and may not have changed at all.


Regards,
Henrik