Re: [hobbit] 4.3.0 fping problem

[Dominique Frise <dominique.frise (at) unil.ch>]

fping is normaly installed with setuid "-rwsr-sr-x": there no need to 
use sudo. The option -Ae is not part of the definition in hobbitserver.cfg.

Try this:

FPING="/usr/local/sbin/fping"


Dominique


mv652 (at) softhome.net wrote:
> Hi,
> I am putting in a new install with Xymon 4.3.0 beta 2.
> When I try to use 'fping' as my ping utility, I receive connection 
> errors for all hosts, including the server itself:
> "Service conn on <host> is not OK : Host does not respond to ping
> System unreachable for 1 poll periods (0 seconds)"
>
> Using' hobbitping' works fine, but because it doesn't report back the  
> times in microseconds correctly I need to use fping.  I'm a little 
> stumped as to what I'm missing to have fping work correctly.
>
> My sudoers file is set as: "xymon ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: 
> /usr/local/sbin/fping".
> Typing in "sudo /usr/local/sbin/fping -Ae <host>" on the command line as 
> my xymon user gives me a response with no password needed.
> My hobbitserver.cfg file has entry: FPING="sudo /usr/local/sbin/fping -Ae".
> [xymon (at) pxxxxxx etc]$ id
> uid=500(xymon) gid=500(xymon) groups=500(xymon)
> [xymon (at) xxxxxx etc]$ which fping
> /usr/local/sbin/fping
> [xymon (at) xxxxxx etc]$ ls -l /usr/local/sbin/fping
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 48827 Jul  8 13:07 /usr/local/sbin/fping
> [xymon (at) xxxxxx etc]$ /usr/local/sbin/fping -Ae y.y.y.y
> This program can only be run by root, or it must be setuid root.
> [xymon (at) xxxxxx etc]$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/fping -Ae y.y.y.y
> y.y.y.y is alive (0.85 ms)
>
> I've compiled with 'hobbitping' and then with 'fping', updating the 
> hobbitserver.cfg with the same result.
>
> I don't think this is a DNS issue because hobbitping works and the IP's 
> reported back to my tests are correct.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Mario
>
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