traceroute help.

[mikey62]

using redhat 8.0 on a laptop box of mine. I ftp and downloaded a traceroute utility.traceroute.tar etc...

ok when I see it in my home directory examle user@localhost$ I think I unzipped it correctly. and I do an ls command and I see it in there. however when I go to do a traceroute@ipaddress. etc..

I keep getting bash traceroute command not found. I do realize I have a traceroute utility when using my gui but it makes me log in as root and I like to stay of root to be safe.

any help? I like to stay in terminal mode and not in root when trying to use this command.

thanks

Mikey

 

[skiflyer]

I'm not really familar with whatever you downloaded... but some general linux tips that may help you...

tracert is almost always built into your command line, try just entering

tracert

http://www.yahoo.com

and see what happens.

Secondly,
One many systems the current directory is not part of your path (this is for security reasons, and applies directly to multiuser systems, but IMO is a little paranoid for a self setup system)... so you won't be able to execute commands in the current directory with specifying the current directory. Did that makes sense?

In other words... if you do an ls and see
myApp

and myApp results in a command not found message then enter

./myApp

and it should go.

-Rob

 

[mikey62]

traceroute-1.4a12
traceroute.tar

are in my ls dir

still no luck on getting traceroute to work while in terminal mode.

tried tracert and nothing.

thanks I will keep trying.

there is a traceroute explanation in the man page. do I have to enable a package or something in redhat for traceroute to run for a non root user in terminal mode. I do have the utility when I use gnome but I like terminal mode better.

any ideas?

thanks again.

Mikey