On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 04:53:21PM +0100, Hans Kinwel wrote: > > I finally went to the bottom of this. Not that it is rocket science. > > When I do fping 1.2.3.4 I get > > ICMP Host Unreachable from 194.178.10.133 for ICMP Echo sent to 1.2.3.4 > ICMP Host Unreachable from 194.178.10.133 for ICMP Echo sent to 1.2.3.4 > ICMP Host Unreachable from 194.178.10.133 for ICMP Echo sent to 1.2.3.4 > 1.2.3.4 is unreachable > > In the (new, broken) fping.monitor I see: > > if (/^(\S+).*unreachable/i) > { > push (@unreachable, $1); > } ... > It is evident now. Some well intending person (probably Jim, from > the RCSid) added a /i and now that string matches with the ICMP Host > Unreachable", to which it is not supposed to match. It is supposed later > to match with a "do nothing" clause that is indeed the right thing to do. > > So if somebody would be so kind to remove that /i I will be much obliged.
I just got around to dealing with fping.monitor on my site. I removed the /i, got rid of my dumb idea to redirect stdout to /dev/null (it loses the "address not found" error messages), and rearranged how fping.monitor treats unidentified output, with this simple patch: --- fping.monitor 2006/12/20 22:46:26 1.3 +++ fping.monitor 2006/12/20 23:07:36 @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ die "could not open pipe to fping: $!\n"; my @unreachable; +my @unidentified; my @alive; my @addr_not_found; my @slow; @@ -122,7 +123,7 @@ else { - print STDERR "unidentified output from fping: [$_]\n"; + push @unidentified, $_; } } @@ -216,6 +217,17 @@ } } +if (@unidentified != 0) +{ + print <<EOF; + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +unidentified output from fping +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +EOF + print join("\n", @unidentified), "\n"; +} + # # traceroute # _______________________________________________ mon mailing list mon@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon