From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 Description of problem: Excuting ntptrace without having /usr/sbin in $PATH produces this: # /usr/sbin/ntptrace localhost Can't exec "ntpq": No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/ntptrace line 22. failed to start command ntpq -n -c rv localhost: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/ntptrace line 22. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ntp-4.2.0-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login as normal user or "su root" (Without having /usr/bin in $PATH) 2. Invoke /usr/sbin/ntptrace Actual Results: Non function. Expected Results: function. Additional info: Origin of this bug is /usr/sbin/ntptrace looking for "ntpq" in $PATH: From /usr/sbin/ntptrace: ... $ntpq = "ntpq"; ... $cmd = "$ntpq -n -c rv $host"; open(PH, $cmd . "|") || die "failed to start command $cmd: $! ... A fix would be to hard-code the absolute path to ntpq: $ntpq = "/usr/sbin/ntpq"