After setting up Smokeping + nginx with fcgiwrap I also added TCPPing and while it worked on a different instance, this time it would just output blank lines at one second intervals. Since a search didn’t turn up the results, I figured I would throw together this post to give the Internet some more search fodder in case someone else runs into this.
TL;DR: Install tcptraceroute
This post was what actually solved my issue, specifically the section at the bottom:
>To make things a bit more confusing, there are various symlinks >(including /etc/alternatives/tcptraceroute) and shell scripts >to offer compatible command line interfaces. > >In your case, just installing the `tcptraceroute' package should do
It seems that at least on Ubuntu based systems, /usr/sbin/tcptraceroute is not the tcptraceroute that TCPPing expects and causes this behavior.
It’s regrettable that TCPPing isn’t more than just a quick script thrown together because then it would hopefully be able to throw a meaningful error message but such is the price of free.
