[smokeping-users] error when slave connects to the master

[Debbie Fligor]

A few weeks ago our sysadmins patched our RHEL6 box that our smokeping master runs on.. Since then none of the slaves have been able to report.  I get this error in our logs:

[Mon Sep 17 12:54:31 2012] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] FastCGI: comm with (dynamic) server "/services/netmetrics/public_html/http/smokeping/smokeping.cgi" aborted: (first read) idle timeout (30 sec)
[Mon Sep 17 12:54:31 2012] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server "/services/netmetrics/public_html/http/smokeping/smokeping.cgi"



but when I run this on the command line, or web to it with a browser, it works fine with no errors:

/services/netmetrics/public_html/http/smokeping/smokeping.cgi 



I spent a lot of time looking through this list archive, and really couldn't find anything about incomplete headers that didn't make it sound like running it on the CLI should fail as well.

here's the packages that they upgraded in case anyone knows of anything in one of those:

       tzdata                        2012c-3.el6         
       glibc-common                  2.12-1.80.el6_3.3   
       nss-util                      3.13.5-1.el6_3      
       krb5-libs                     1.9-33.el6_3.2      
       nspr                          4.9.1-2.el6_3       
       nss-sysinit                   3.13.5-1.el6_3      
       nss                           3.13.5-1.el6_3      
       bind-libs                     9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.2
       perl-DBD-Pg                   2.15.1-4.el6_3      
       dracut                        004-284.el6_3       
       dracut-kernel                 004-284.el6_3       
       nagios-plugins                1.4.15-7.el6        
       nagios-common                 3.4.1-2.el6         
       nagios-plugins-perl           1.4.15-7.el6        
       kernel-firmware               2.6.32-279.2.1.el6  
       kernel                        2.6.32-279.2.1.el6  
       nagios-plugins-procs          1.4.15-7.el6        
       nss-tools                     3.13.5-1.el6_3      
       nagios-plugins-ntp            1.4.15-7.el6        
       nagios-plugins-swap           1.4.15-7.el6        
       psgconf                       6.9-1.smg.el6       
       nagios-plugins-disk           1.4.15-7.el6        
       nagios-plugins-load           1.4.15-7.el6        
       nagios-plugins-mailq          1.4.15-7.el6        
       kpartx                        0.4.9-56.el6_3.1    
       bind-utils                    9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.2
       sudo                          1.7.4p5-12.el6_3    
       glibc                         2.12-1.80.el6_3.3   (i686)


smokeping-2.6.8 for both the master and the slaves.  RHEL6 for the master, Mac OS 10.6 and 10.7 for the slaves.

-- 
-debbie
Debbie Fligor, n9dn       Lead Network Engineer for CITES @ Univ. of Il
email: fligor at illinois.edu          <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/fligor>
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