On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:05:13PM +0200, Kevin Ivory wrote:
> On 2005-07-07 13:00, Kevin Ivory wrote:
> >the fping.monitor included with mon-1.0.0pre5 doesn't semm to parse
> >the output of fping correctly.
> ...
> ># ./fping.monitor 192.168.140.3
> >192.168.140.3 ICMP ICMP ICMP ICMP
> 
> some more extra information: the problematic code must have went in
> between pre3 and pre4: pre3's output looks fine.

I've been getting this too - it looks like fping sends some of its
error messages to stderr, which confuse fping.monitor.  Try the patch
below, which discards the messages, which fping.monitor would ignore
anyway.

--- /usr/local/mon/mon.d/fping.monitor  2004-11-24 18:23:53.000000000 -0500
+++ ./fping.monitor     2005-08-31 21:48:04.000000000 -0400
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@

 exit 0 if (@ARGV == 0);

-open (IN, "$CMD @ARGV 2>&1 |") ||
+open (IN, "$CMD @ARGV 2>/dev/null |") ||
        die "could not open pipe to fping: $!\n";

 my @unreachable;

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