fping -- "failed to return data about" after Debian Upgrade

[Jason Azze]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:59 PM, jeff weisberg <jaw+arguslist at tcp4me.com>wrote:

>
> On 5 Apr 2011, at 12:20 , Jason Azze wrote:
>
>  After upgrading from Debian "Lenny" to the latest testing distribution,
>> argus shows all of my hosts as down.
>>
>> The logs show that both ping and fping failed to return data. For example:
>>
>
>
> are these programs now installed in a different location?
>
> you will need to stop argus;
>        configure --upgrade; make; make install
> and restart
>
>
Thanks, Jeff. Those programs have not moved, but I recompiled anyway (with
the --upgrade) and Argus is happy again.

I'm embarrassed to say that I think I did this to myself a few years ago and
just forgot the solution. I'm documenting it this time!