Hi Jsg, Traceroute should be setuid root. The problem is that there were security problems with traceroute (in 2002) that allowed a local user to cause problems (?) by executing it setuid. So today, in some distros the setuid bit is gone. Unfortunately without the setuid bit, traceroute can not work properly for normal users. My understanding is that the problems have been fixed, but the setuid bit is gone anyway ... My suggestion is to run
chown root:root /usr/bin/traceroute chmod u+s /usr/bin/traceroute that will make things work for you. Maybe there are more knowledgable people on the list who can suggest other solutions. cheers tobi > Hi guys, > > I've upgraded to the new smoketrace 2.4.1, and following Tobi's improved > documentation, I've ALMOST got it up and running. There's just > [hopefully] one small glitch that still remains. > > Here's my problem ... > > tr.html loads/displays properly, but when it tries to actually execute a > traceroute, it throws up the error message "The specific type of > tracerouting is allowed for superuser only." > > Okay ... so obviously I need to change some permissions - that's simple > enough - but what I'm not sure about is exactly which file(s) in > particular actually need to be given superuser rights? > > Much appreciated ... > > _______________________________________________ > smokeping-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users > > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten http://it.oetiker.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++41 62 213 9902 _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
