Package: collectd Severity: important Version: 4.10.1-1+squeeze2 Hi,
the ping plugin restarts when sending pings to a host is not allowed by iptables. Easy to reproduce with: iptables -I OUTPUT 1 -p icmp -j REJECT (or DROP instead of REJECT). A "normal" ping prints: root@conthink:~# ping 8.8.8.8 PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data. ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted The ping plugin in collectd restarts: Jun 16 09:37:38 gw001 collectd[17453]: ping plugin: ping_send failed: Operation not permitted Jun 16 09:38:18 gw001 collectd[17453]: ping plugin: The ping thread had a problem. Restarting it. Jun 16 09:38:18 gw001 collectd[17453]: read-function of plugin `ping' failed. Will suspend it for 80 seconds. ... and so on. Unfortunately liboping doesn't pass the errno in the pingobj, so distinguishing between the different errors is not that easy. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
