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