[smokeping-users] ANNOUNCE: fping 3.3

David Schweikert david at schweikert.ch
Wed Aug 29 15:21:02 CEST 2012


On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 09:38:01 +0200, Tobias Klausmann wrote:
> > * Output statistics to stdout instead of stderr
> 
> For the benefit of those who are not aware: this breaks Smokeping
> (at least up to and including 2.6.8 since it expects this data on
> stderr. My current workaround is a shell wrapper that simply does
> 1>&2 so data lands on stderr again.

That was a mistake to change that behavior. I didn't realize that it
would break programs using it like this.

I will shortly release a new fping release (3.4) with that change
reverted and with a new option to put statistics on stdout.

Cheers
David



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