Hi there, On Tuesday, 10. November 2009, Petr Salinger wrote: > it seems that the nagios related packages need an ping command available. > They choose iputils-ping, which is rather linux specific. > Could be possible to switch (at least on non-linux) > to inetutils-ping (already available) or fping (modulo #555398 available). > It will help to kfreebsd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64 and hurd architectures.
a short status update of the bug. With upstream I managed to get the stuff to compile and running on the first look. After testing the package for a while, I recognized that the migration over to iputils-ping introduces a regression. If a echo reply is missing, check_ping seems to return nothing, which results into a "Plugin timed out after 10 seconds". A bit more information can be found at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=397597&aid=2896201&group_id=29880 and I contacted upstream about the problem ~3 weeks ago, but as you may imagine, the holidays we had, slowed the process a bit down. Anyhow ... this bug is at the moment the main showstopper to upload an updated package. Leaving it unfixed with the next upload seems not an option, but having the freeze in march in mind, things will get a bit into rush, as I don't want to upload the package in the last minutes. Fixing new bugs (possible introduced with the new upload) before the freeze, will be more comfortable for all related parties. So ... if anybody has a solution in mind to get the package using iputils-ping (at least on non-linux) and not introducing the regression on the remaining arch, feel free to step forward and provide patches now! :) Many thanks and with kind regards, Jan. -- Never write mail to <w...@spamfalle.info>, you have been warned! -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT d-- s+: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E--- W+++ N+++ o++ K++ w--- O M V- PS PE Y++ PGP++ t-- 5 X R tv- b+ DI D+ G++ e++ h---- r+++ y++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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