Package: nagios-plugins Severity: important Tags: patch check_ping uses special features only found in iputils-ping and not found in other packages providing ping particularly -w: -w deadline Specify a timeout, in seconds, before ping exits regardless of how many pack-ets have been sent or received. In this case ping does not stop after count packet are sent, it waits either for deadline expire or until count probes are answered or for some error notification from network.
So, in my case, nagios just reported everything down (ping used invalid args and returned an error indicating the host was down) Solution: nagios-plugins should depend on _just_ iputils-ping -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.2-ash-050309-01 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]