Bug 74301

Summary:	traceroute seems to be not there
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Nick Mumbach <nmumbach>
Component:	traceroute	Assignee:	Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version:	null	CC:	barryn, rvokal
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Description Nick Mumbach 2002-09-19 23:24:35 UTC

Description of Problem: cannot run traceroute


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How Reproducible:always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to terminal session
2. type 'traceroute'
3. error message 'bash: command not found'

Actual Results: nada


Expected Results: something


Additional Information: Also, clicking on the Traceroute menu item in system
tools does nothing

Comment 1 Barry K. Nathan 2002-09-21 08:35:32 UTC

On my (null) system, traceroute is in /usr/sbin/traceroute, where it's been for
the last I-can't-remember-how-many Red Hat releases, and it's in the traceroute
package. Usually this isn't in the $PATH of mere mortal users (as opposed to
root) so you need to type the whole path or change your shell scripts to add
/usr/sbin to your PATH by default. FWIW, this isn't unique to Linux either (it's
true for most Unix variants I've seen).

The traceroute menu item is a different problem. I don't know what's happening
for you; for me, it runs xmtr (/usr/bin/xmtr), from the mtr-gtk package.

Comment 2 Phil Knirsch 2002-10-04 12:52:11 UTC

Well, as a 'normal' user (none root) the path where tracroute is isn't in the
PATH environment variable, but it has been like that for ages, too.

So if you try a

/usr/sbin/traceroute

it should work.

Read ya, Phil