Re: traceroute vs. traceroute6
Robert Luberda wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> I discovered some inconsistency in potato/woody filesystem.
> There is /usr/sbin/traceroute from traceroute or traceroute-nanog
> packages and /usr/bin/traceroute6 from netbase. Since traceroute
> and traceroute6 does the same thing, one of them is in a wrong
> directory. But which?
In my opinion, it is traceroute6 which is in the wrong directory.
> Is traceroute a tool for a normal system user or for administators only?
traceroute is considered a system administration tool, for this
reason, it normally requires superuser privileges to run it, and
it is usually in (/usr)/sbin .
> As a normal user I very often use traceroute
Are you doing this with sudo? Changed the ownership/group of
traceroute?
Or are you normally logging in as superuser? (tsk, tsk)
****BREAKING NEWS****
I found out that I didn't have traceroute installed on the
Debian/Sparc box I have here, so did, and >lo, and behold<
It executed from a normal user login! I guess either the
upstream maintainer or the package maintainer disagrees
with the usual anal retentiveness concerning traceroute
privileges. Good.
> and I'd like to see it in
> /usr/bin. But I know that on most unices traceroute is considered to be
> an admistrative tool and is in /usr/sbin directory. So traceroute6
> probably shoud be moved to /usr/sbin too.
FWIW, I concur. I think you've found a bug to report, severity
WISHLIST.
> And similar probelm: where should be located tracepath and tracepath6?
> In /usr/bin, where they are now or in /usr/sbin?
I'm not familiar with these, someone else will have to weigh in on them.
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