unable to traceroute

I am using Mandriva 2007 free, release 2.6.17-5mdv on an i686 machine.
when I attempt a traceroute I get the message: bash: traceroute: command
not found
Thanks, George

none wrote:
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> I am using Mandriva 2007 free, release 2.6.17-5mdv on an i686 machine.
> when I attempt a traceroute I get the message: bash: traceroute: command
> not found[/color]

George,

change to root first and you'll find this command.

Rob.

none wrote:[color=blue]
> when I attempt a traceroute I get the message: bash: traceroute:
> command not found[/color]

The most likely scenario is that you have msec set to level 4.

[url]http://tinyurl.com/2pt4dh[/url]

On 12 Jul at 10:15 none <""george\"@(none)"> wrote in message
<F72dnT4nK8QPbQjbnZ2dnUVZ_qfinZ2d@comcast.com>
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> Scott B. wrote:[color=green]
> > none wrote:[color=darkred]
> > > when I attempt a traceroute I get the message: bash: traceroute:
> > > command not found[/color]
> >
> > The most likely scenario is that you have msec set to level 4.
> >
> > [url]http://tinyurl.com/2pt4dh[/url][/color]
> when I attempt a traceroute, as root, I get the message: bash: traceroute:
> command not found. tracert works with xp. George
>[/color]

as root: urpmi traceroute



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Tony van der Hoff | mailto:tony@vanderhoff.org
Buckinghamshire, England

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:44:47 +0000, none wrote:[color=blue]
> I am using Mandriva 2007 free, release 2.6.17-5mdv on an i686 machine.
> when I attempt a traceroute I get the message: bash: traceroute: command
> not found[/color]

Usuall problem is, it's location is not in your PATH variable or not
installed.

The following assumes you have installed the mlocate package and
/etc/cron.daily/mlocate.cron has executed.

Using the locate utility, we find
$ locate traceroute | grep bin
/usr/sbin/traceroute
/usr/sbin/traceroute6


That indicates you need /usr/sbin in your PATH variable.
$ echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n}
/usr/local/bin
/bin
/usr/bin
/usr/games
/usr/lib/qt3//bin
/sbin
/usr/sbin <=========== see there is where I added it to mine
/local/bin
/home/bittwister/bin
/home/bittwister/work

If you do/have not installed mlocate, doing a
$ ls -al /usr/sbin/traceroute
returns something like
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root bin 18204 Jan 28 17:17 /usr/sbin/traceroute

you can do a
/usr/sbin/traceroute
or
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin
and
traceroute somewhere should work

Tony van der Hoff wrote:[color=blue]
> On 12 Jul at 10:15 none <""george\"@(none)"> wrote in message
> <F72dnT4nK8QPbQjbnZ2dnUVZ_qfinZ2d@comcast.com>
>[color=green]
>> Scott B. wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> none wrote:
>>>> when I attempt a traceroute I get the message: bash: traceroute:
>>>> command not found
>>> The most likely scenario is that you have msec set to level 4.
>>>
>>> [url]http://tinyurl.com/2pt4dh[/url][/color]
>> when I attempt a traceroute, as root, I get the message: bash: traceroute:
>> command not found. tracert works with xp. George
>>[/color]
>
> as root: urpmi traceroute
>
>
>[/color]
thanks, that did it!