Re: traceroute vs. traceroute6
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 07:13:06PM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote:
> > 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 .
(All IMHO). traceroute and ping should be treated the same, since
one is not really any more admin-only than the other. Both must be setuid
root to run. Both belong in bin rather than sbin IMHO. (ping in
/bin, traceroute in /usr/sbin.)
hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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