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
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.
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