Docker, \"ping\": executable file not found in $PATH": unknown
First enter the bash in the container # 1
docker container exec -it CONTAINER bash
In bash, type
apt update
then,
apt install iputils-ping
then,
exit
then type the ping command and it should work fine
e.g. docker container exec -it new_pizd ping new_nginx2
The output
OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: container_linux.go:348: starting container process caused "exec: \"ping\": executable file not found in $PATH": unknown
means that the ping
command was not found (either $PATH
is misconfigured, or ping
is not available, or something else).
How can I check the docker variable $PATH?
Run , it should output something like the following$ docker exec -ti <CONTAINER> echo $PATH
Edit: should be $ docker exec -ti <CONTAINER> bash -c 'echo "$PATH"'
/home/user/.bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
$PATH
is an environment variable set in *nix shells, it contains the directories where executables are looked up.
Which executable file does it refer to?
As it says in the error output, the ping
executable. Once you know the content of $PATH
, you can check what the problem is (ping
should be in /bin
, at least on the containers I have here atm), and try to solve it.
To open an interactive console to inspect/work on the container, run $ docker exec -ti <CONTAINER> bash
.
Update
I have checked the bin,there is no ping inside
You probably have to install iputils-ping
, see the answers here, but basically (assuming your container is based on Debian or Ubuntu or similar distribution) run
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install iputils-ping