Bug 221764

Summary:	new traceroute breaks scripts
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl>
Component:	traceroute	Assignee:	Martin Bacovsky <mbacovsk>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6	CC:	dmitry, redhat-bugzilla
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Fixed In Version:	traceroute-2.0.3-1.fc6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Benjamin LaHaise 2007-01-07 18:59:38 UTC

Newer versions of traceroute fail when passed args like:

   traceroute -w2 1.2.3.4

Note the lack of space between the -w and 2.  This new restriction breaks
existing scripts that have worked fine for a decade.

Comment 1 Dmitry Butskoy 2007-01-09 12:58:56 UTC

Thanks for report!

Try new upstream version at:
http://dmitry.butskoy.name/traceroute/traceroute-2.0.3.tar.gz

(You can rebuild it locally using "rpmbuild -ta traceroute-2.0.3.tar.gz",
if you don't want to wait for an official update ;) )


> This new restriction breaks existing scripts that have worked fine for a
> decade.

Benjamin,
Whether those scripts are some wide-spread code, or it was written just locally?

Comment 2 Martin Bacovsky 2007-01-29 16:27:58 UTC

This issue should be fixed in traceroute-2.0.3-1.fc6. Thanks to Dmitry for fix.