[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#857366: monitoring-plugins-basic: check_ping cannot parse output under certain locale settings

[Olivier Berger]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 04:43:03PM +0100, Olivier Berger wrote:
> but the problem is now :
> # sudo -u nagios '/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping' '-4' '-H' '127.0.0.1' '-c' '200,15%' '-w' '100,5%'
> /bin/ping -n -U -w 10 -c 5 127.0.0.1
> CRITICAL - Could not interpret output from ping command
> 
> It seems a workaround is to chmod u+s /bin/ping ...
> 
> Maybe the nagios user isn't setup properly ? I used to run nagios3 on that system, and that may explain why ?
> 

The culprit is more around iputils-ping, since capabilities seem to have been missing for /bin/ping

The correct setting should be :
# getcap /bin/ping 
/bin/ping = cap_net_raw+ep

Otherwise, doing this will solve it :
# apt-get install --reinstall iputils-ping

Not sure exactly what led to an upgraded system where that was missing... but maybe the workaround will be useful for some others.

Hope this helps,

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Olivier BERGER 
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