Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Jeff Walter
Mike Frysinger wrote: i'm not going to fix just the path issue, i'm going to do em both in one sweep -mike Well, you won't find me complaining. ;-) -- Jeff Walter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 April 2007, Jeff Walter wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > this package has always sucked ... it needs to be punted for the newer > > one at http://dmitry.butskoy.name/traceroute > > Well, that's a separate subject all together. I'm just talking about > placement of the binary. i'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 April 2007, Timothy Redaelli wrote: > You should (also) fix net-misc/iputils for /usr/sbin/traceroute6 yes > maybe it's better to create a dedicate ebuild for traceroute6? no -mike pgphDuLQKdIMc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Jeff Walter
Rob C wrote: Although Jonathan is correct in pointing out that you can modify the search path, this is not really a valid response... Traceroute is heavily used by many people and therefore I don't think its reasonable to place it somewhere in the file system that a typical user does not have

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Jeff Walter
Mike Frysinger wrote: this package has always sucked ... it needs to be punted for the newer one at http://dmitry.butskoy.name/traceroute -mike :-) Well, that's a separate subject all together. I'm just talking about placement of the binary. -- Jeff Walter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Mike Frysinger ha scritto: > On Thursday 12 April 2007, Jeff Walter wrote: >> I can understand traceroute being setuid, but why put it in /usr/sbin so >> only root sees it? If we only want root to run it, it doesn't need to be >> setuid. It just doesn't make sense for a setuid application to only

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 April 2007, Jeff Walter wrote: > I can understand traceroute being setuid, but why put it in /usr/sbin so > only root sees it? If we only want root to run it, it doesn't need to be > setuid. It just doesn't make sense for a setuid application to only be > directly available to root

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Rob C
On 12/04/07, Jonathan Adamczewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jeff Walter wrote: > > I can understand traceroute being setuid, but why put it in /usr/sbin > so only root sees it? Huh? Just add /usr/sbin to your PATH. $ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin $ traceroute Version 1.4a12 Usage: traceroute

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Ioannis Aslanidis
On 4/12/07, Jonathan Adamczewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jeff Walter wrote: > > I can understand traceroute being setuid, but why put it in /usr/sbin > so only root sees it? That is not a clean solution. Do we have to presume that traceroute has to be used like ifconfig, or is it the real

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Jonathan Adamczewski
Jeff Walter wrote: I can understand traceroute being setuid, but why put it in /usr/sbin so only root sees it? Huh? Just add /usr/sbin to your PATH. $ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin $ traceroute Version 1.4a12 Usage: traceroute [-dFInrvx] [-g gateway] [-i iface] [-f first_ttl] [-m max_

[gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness

2007-04-12 Thread Jeff Walter
I just emerge'd traceroute, dropped back to my normal user, and it didn't run. So, I checked the emerge messages and saw this: * >>> SetUID: [chmod go-r] /var/tmp/portage/net-analyzer/traceroute-1.4_p12-r5/image//usr/sbin/traceroute ... [ ok ] ---