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
#
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