On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 14:00 +0100, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > When I start gnome-nettool as a normal user, > and try to use the traceroute tab, the following > happens: Trace button turns red, status bar looks > as if the program does something, and then nothing. > No error message whatsoever. > > Only when I start gnome-nettool from a terminal I > get the following message in the terminal: > > The specified type of tracerouting is allowed for superuser only > > Most users using gnome-nettool will not start it > from the terminal and will therefore be confused. > > *And* there are ways of tracerouting that normal > users are allowed to do. Why are these not used? Hi, The error message actually comes from tcptraceroute. gnome-nettool can use either tcptraceroute or traceroute, but prefers the first one. This is easy to change of course, we can patch the source and/or change the depends to prefer traceroute. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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