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To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>
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On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 08:51:31 +0300 Odhiambo Washington wrote:

> I have manually tried running the commands, with the correct args and
> the clue I get leaves me clueless ;)

> For example, the check-host-alive command:

> warta# /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ping -H 62.8.64.6 -4 -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1
> CRITICAL - You need more args!!!
> Could not open pipe:

It works here:
$ /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ping -H 62.8.64.6 -4 -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1
PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 642.54 ms
$ uname -srm
FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE i386

You may try to use ktrace/strace or else to diagnose the problem.


WBR
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