Topic: Trace route ?

[Jean-Baptiste]

Hallo all,

What is the command for trace route on SME box please ?

Thanks in advance.
JeanBa

[Michiel]

Ehmmm, traceroute maybe?

[Jean-Baptiste]

Hi Michiel,

tried this and received this message below
[admin@tcauserver e-smith]$ traceroute www.canopus.com
bash: traceroute: command not found
[admin@tcauserver e-smith]$

[Jean-Baptiste]

Rehi,

Please ignore my question

Silly me, just remarked that we can't use this command except logged in as root.

Regards,

[Dan Brown]

Sure you can--you just need to either add /usr/sbin to your path, or run /usr/sbin/traceroute.

[Jean-Baptiste]

Hi Dan,

Thanks so much... Please show how you can add /usr/sbin to admin path ?

Sorry for the newbie request on linux world.

Regards,

[Michiel]

Add it to the PATH= statement in .bash_profile in the user's root directory (/home/e-smith/files/users/jeanba).

Michiel

[Michiel]

> Add it to the PATH= statement in .bash_profile in the user's root directory
> (/home/e-smith/files/users/jeanba).

And before you complain it doesn't work You need to log off and log on again to activate the change.

[Jean-Baptiste]

Michiel,

It doesn't work... just kidding because I don't do anything yet.

There is no .bash_profile in /home/e-smith/files/users/jeanba, ie I have to create one and add PATH=/usr/sbin ?

Many thanks for your help.

Cheers,
PS: how do you know that my username is jeanba

[Michiel]

> There is no .bash_profile in
In /etc/skel you'll find a template for .bash_profile. Copy it to your user's directory, set ownership to the user and edit it to your liking. For instance PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin would let you find traceroute.

> PS: how do you know that my username is jeanba
I saw it when I hacked your machine to delete .bash_profile...

[Jean-Baptiste]

Hahaha... thanks so much Michiel.

By the way, please just wait untill I become billionaire before hacking, otherwise it isn't worth.

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