Bug 222093

Summary:	new traceroute breaks scripts
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Martin Bacovsky <mbacovsk>
Component:	traceroute	Assignee:	Martin Bacovsky <mbacovsk>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.0	CC:	dmitry, mmalik, redhat-bugzilla
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	RHBA-2007-1103	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2007-12-12 15:49:49 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	221764
Bug Blocks:	223784

Description Martin Bacovsky 2007-01-10 09:14:42 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #221764 +++

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.

-- Additional comment from dmitry on 2007-01-09 07:58 EST --
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 1 Martin Bacovsky 2007-01-10 09:25:30 UTC

I think this should be included in RHEL-5 too. I would prefere to upgrade to
upstream traceroute-2.0.3. If it is not possible I can create patch.

Changes since previous release:
>       *  version 2.0.3
>
>       *  allow option args without separator (add CLIF_MAY_JOIN_ARG flag),
>          for compatibility (Benjamin LaHaise)
>
>       *  no more "tcptraceroute" symlink for rpm packages, because
>          it conflicts with the same-name old package anyway (James Ralston)
>
>       *  fix compilation on glibc < 2.4 (Andy Shevchenko)

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2007-01-10 09:40:36 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 9 Martin Bacovsky 2007-11-29 11:06:52 UTC

This issue should be fixed in traceroute-2.0.1-3.el5.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2007-12-12 15:49:49 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-1103.html