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* On 04/06/06 14:10 +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
| 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.


Got it after some fiddling with strace! The problem is caused by the
compile option - WITH_IPV6=1. If you compile with this option, you
need to have at least ::1 defined in /etc/hosts.

Stupid me! Why did I even enable it when I don't use IPv6? ;)


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