Well i have this issue mentioned in the subject on a recently installed nagios core in a debian x64 lenny box.
Already tried the most common solution around: give executable permission to /bin/ping with:
But still the same problem.chmod u+s /bin/ping
I did tried this in the command line also:
it does work. Now if i do:/bin/ping -n -U -w 30 -c 5 127.0.0.1
I get the same error:/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H 127.0.0.1 -w 100.0,20% -c 500.0,60% -p 5
ping
CRITICAL - Could not interpret output from ping command
In my cgi.cfg file in the ping sintax section i have:
If you need any extra info i can provide it, i hope you can help me, thanks.ping_syntax=/bin/ping -n -U -c 5 $HOSTADDRESS$