Re: of bash and ...sbin/
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 08:24:42PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> Dylan Paul Thurston <dpt@math.berkeley.edu> writes:
> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:52:37AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> > > at the risk of reigniting a flame war, how is traceroute in a different
> > > catagory that ping?
>
> traceroute is "deeper" than ping. It exposes things that the casual
> user neither sees nor cares about. Ping only measures what everybody
> experiences anyway: how responsive is a particular host?
Without going in depth as to what traceroute and ping are (a fruitless flame
war) suffice it to say that I disagree with your "deeper" comment.
> One has to draw a boundary, and on GNU systems it runs between ping
> and traceroute. Others do it differnently, AFAIR AIX has both in
> sbin.
These 'boundaries' are completely arbitrary, since as pointed out earlier,
Herbert Xu isn't willing to change traceroute.
Perhaps we should ask Dan Quinlan?
> > Or mtr, for that matter?
>
> That should go into sbin. I filed a wishlist item.
If it is really to go in sbin, then I shall also take the suid-bit off of
it, since obviously only root will be using it anyway.
mtr users, relax: none of this will happen, because, first and foremost, *I*
use mtr as a user. :)
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Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org
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