Niko Tyni wrote: > >Hi, > >this indeed looks like the problem is in the test_usage() methods. >All they do is test whether the given echoping binary supports any >relevant command-line options. The testing is done by 'pinging' 127.0.0.1 >and trying to parse the output for any error messages. > >Apparently this hangs up on your system yor some reason. Does eg. >'echoping -C -h / 127.0.0.1' work from the regular command line? >Perhaps you have really tight firewall rules that block even requests >coming from localhost? > >HTH, > > That's precisely what's going on; thanks, Niko. I'm using the Projectfiles.com rc.firewall package, and though it appears to not be so restrictive about the loopback interface, apparently something isn't working properly in the script.
I guess it would be nice if echoping would spit out _some_ kind of output when probes were failing. -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/smokeping-users WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
