[hobbit] passing options to fping command

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Sat Jul 29 23:21:36 CEST 2006


On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:03:57AM -0400, Tom Georgoulias wrote:
> I'd like to increase the retry count for fping from the default of 3 to 
> 5-6, and I'm not sure my change is taking effect.
> 
> In hobbitserver.cfg, I've passed "-r5" to the FPING variable.
> 
> FPING="/usr/sbin/fping -r5"
> 
> Checking the bb-network.log file, it appears that fping is still using 
> the default flags "OrdAstILe":
> 
> status hostname.conn green <!-- [flags:OrdAstILe] --> Wed Jul 26 10:44:20 2006 conn ok

That "flags" entry is something completely different. It's a debugging
tool I've left in to help with troubleshooting network connections.
It has nothing to do with the fping options.


Henrik




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