Nagios : check_ping CRITICAL - popen timeout received, but no child process

Posted December 15th, 2008 by Perk1z

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[root@ibm /usr/local/nagios/libexec]# ./check_ping -H titik.org -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5
CRITICAL - popen timeout received, but no child process

try the CVS snapshot at http://nagiosplug.sf.net/snapshot

[root@ibm ~]# wget http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/snapshot/nagios-plugins-HEAD.tar.gz
–2008-12-15 14:10:52– http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/snapshot/nagios-plugins-HEAD.tar.gz
Resolving nagiosplug.sourceforge.net… 216.34.181.96
Connecting to nagiosplug.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.96|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 1845366 (1.8M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `nagios-plugins-HEAD.tar.gz’

100%[===========================>] 1,845,366 8.15K/s in 3m 34s

2008-12-15 14:14:29 (8.41 KB/s) - `nagios-plugins-HEAD.tar.gz’ saved [1845366/1845366]

[root@ibm ~]# tar zxvf nagios-plugins-HEAD.tar.gz
[root@ibm ~/nagios-plugins-trunk-200812150100]# ./configure –without-ipv6
[root@ibm ~/nagios-plugins-trunk-200812150100]# make
[root@ibm ~/nagios-plugins-trunk-200812150100]# make install

try again …

[root@ibm /usr/local/nagios/libexec]# ./check_ping -H titik.org -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5
PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 244.31 ms|rta=244.309998ms;3000.000000;5000.000000;0.000000 pl=0%;80;100;0

Done !

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