On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Eric Chowanski <eric AT wwek DOT org> wrote:
>
> However, my solution was to set $conf{PingCmd} in the host config to
> "/bin/echo" because $conf{PingPath} looks to me to be a global only and
> I would like to keep pings for local machines.  But this does solve the
> ping problem so far.  Thank you for the solution.
>
> Any thoughts if this is considered normal or should his indicate some
> area of the system that's buggy?  I ask only because as I found, the
> commands succeed on the command line but fail from the GUI and the using
> "/bin/echo" strikes me more as 'work around' than actual explanation for
> the behavior.  I am happy to do more testing if that's the case if more
> knowledgeable folk can suggest any helpful directions.

Not quite sure why the return status from your ssh'd ping command
isn't getting back, but openvpn is easy to set up and I'd recommend
using it instead of fighting with ssh issues.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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