Here are a couple of patches from Debian users. The first adjust for some current fping output, the second corrects the docs for failure_interval (which is currently listed as a period def rather than a service def).
Index: mon.d/fping.monitor =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/src/cvsroot/debian/mon/mon.d/fping.monitor,v retrieving revision 1.8 retrieving revision 1.9 diff -u -r1.8 -r1.9 --- mon.d/fping.monitor 13 Sep 2001 23:56:39 -0000 1.8 +++ mon.d/fping.monitor 3 Jun 2002 18:52:53 -0000 1.9 @@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ push @unreachable, $1; } + elsif (/^ICMP Host Unreachable from \S* for ICMP Echo sent to /) + { + # ignore this - we'll have an "unreachable" message anyway + } + else { print STDERR "unidentified output from fping: [$_]\n"; Index: doc/mon.8 =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/src/cvsroot/debian/mon/doc/mon.8,v retrieving revision 1.2 retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -r1.2 -r1.3 --- doc/mon.8 7 Sep 2001 14:32:48 -0000 1.2 +++ doc/mon.8 3 Jun 2002 18:52:51 -0000 1.3 @@ -913,6 +913,13 @@ .IR timeval . .TP +.BI failure_interval " timeval" +Adjusts the polling interval to +.I timeval +when the service check is failing. Resets the interval +to the original when the service succeeds. + +.TP .BI traptimeout " timeval" This keyword takes the same time specification argument as .BI interval , @@ -1208,13 +1215,6 @@ .B "ALERT PROGRAMS" section above for a list of the pramaeters mon will pass automatically to alert programs. - -.TP -.BI failure_interval " timeval" -Adjusts the polling interval to -.I timeval -when the service check is failing. Resets the interval -to the original when the service succeeds. .TP .BI upalert " alert [arg...]" -- Roderick Schertler [EMAIL PROTECTED]