Resolved.
Didn't see that the new provisioning tool use a default mode of 600 for
writing files! /etc/hosts was readable by root but not the smokeping user.
My bad...
Le lundi 15 septembre 2014 17:52:28 UTC+2, Jean-Philippe PAPILLON a écrit :
>
> Hello FPing Group,
>
> I'm a newbie trying to resolve an issue in deploying Smokeping with Fping
> probes. So the problem can be on one or the other, or on my
> misunderstanding (I'm not an expert on Linux)
>
> The end machines are RPi with Raspbian. Fping and Smokeping are in their
> Debian version, v3.2 and 2.6.8 respectively.
>
> The issue happens when starting the service. Invoking "service smokeping
> start", blocks 4 times out of 5 with:
>
> [....] Starting latency logger daemon: smokepingSent data to Server and
> got new config in response.
>
> ERROR: fping ('/usr/bin/fping -C 1 localhost') could not be run: localhost
> address not found
>
> at (eval 48) line 1
>
> Sometimes (1/5 times), it works!!!
>
> However the same command '/usr/bin/fping -C 1 localhost' alsways works
> correctly from a bash shell (0.27ms).
>
> I looked in the sources of FPing and Smokeping
>
>
> https://github.com/schweikert/fping/blob/3cc482f2d30f03e1c6a4d707084ca1b8305460f1/src/fping.c#L1985
>
>
> https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing/blob/master/lib/Smokeping/probes/FPing.pm#L72
>
>
> I am puzzled. How a gethostbyname() like this one could fail ?
>
> Anyone would have an idea of where to look for ?
>
> NB:
>
> Raspbian has been modified with the installation of package resolvconf to
> put / in read-only. I reversed these changes to see if there is
> interferences, when no success.
>
> Best regards.
>
> JPP
>
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