[Xymon] [terabithia rpm] conn reported red for all hosts

[Marcin Struzak]

I installed xymon-4.3.28-1.fc20.x86_64 from terabithia.org, and all the 
hosts fail the conn test, e.g.,

Sun Jan 19 18:56:35 2020 conn NOT ok

Service conn on shark is not OK : Host does not respond to ping


Running "/usr/libexec/xymon/xymonnet --ping --no-update --debug <host>" 
from command line revealed an issue with folders:

<date & timestamp> Cannot create file 
/usr/share/xymon/tmp/ping-stdout.2138.00 : No such file or directory
<date & timestamp> Cannot create file 
/usr/share/xymon/tmp/ping-stderr.2138.00 : No such file or directory
<date & timestamp> xymonping child could not create outputfiles in 
/usr/share/xymon/tmp
<date & timestamp> Cannot open ping output file 
/usr/share/xymon/tmp/ping-stdout.2138.00

status+30 shark.conn clear <!-- [flags:OrdAstLe] --> Sun Jan 19 18:38:55 
2020 conn ok : System failure of the ping test

Service conn on shark is OK
Xymon system error

&green


I created a symbolic link from /usr/share/xymon to /var/lib/xymon/tmp/, 
and now the command line succeeds:

status+30 shark.conn green <!-- [flags:OrdAstLe] --> Sun Jan 19 19:01:57 
2020 conn ok

Service conn on shark is OK (up)

&green 10.10.10.1 is alive (0.07 ms)

but the Current Status (Main view) reports conn red.


Any help you can provide to debug this further will be appreciated!


--Marcin