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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