Topic: irritating warnings ...

[thomas]

hello folks,

to keep my isp from disconnecting mit dsl-line (pppoe) I am running via cron a small "ping ... -c5".
Now I get via mail the warnings:
Warning: no SO_TIMESTAMP support, falling back to SIOCGSTAMP

if I issue the command from prompt I don't get any errors.

Do you know what could help or how I can suppress this messages?

Thanks

Thomas

[Jason Miller]

I know what you mean.  I had to do this to keep my cable modem connection up throughout the day as well.

I did a search on www.google.com for those warnings and discovered that if I added the -U parameter to ping the messages disappear.  Try that and see what happens.

Its got something to do with ping not being updated yet with the new kernel shipping in 4.1 (ping looking for SO_TIMESTAMP parameter which must have been removed).

My problem was it was setup to ping out every 10 min. and I didn't check my admin email for a few days - thats a lot of messages getting sent despite piping output to /dev/null.

Jason

[thomas]

thanks a lot ... yes I've got also that much messages at first (300 )
but now it works alright with the -U switch .

Thomas