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From: Timothy Redaelli <drizzt@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:39:22
Message-Id: 461E3555.80905@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger ha scritto:
2 > On Thursday 12 April 2007, Jeff Walter wrote:
3 >> I can understand traceroute being setuid, but why put it in /usr/sbin so
4 >> only root sees it? If we only want root to run it, it doesn't need to be
5 >> setuid. It just doesn't make sense for a setuid application to only be
6 >> directly available to root.
7 >
8 > this package has always sucked ... it needs to be punted for the newer one at
9 > http://dmitry.butskoy.name/traceroute
10 > -mike
11
12 You should (also) fix net-misc/iputils for /usr/sbin/traceroute6 or
13 maybe it's better to create a dedicate ebuild for traceroute6?
14
15 --
16 Timothy `Drizzt` Redaelli - http://dev.gentoo.org/~drizzt/
17 FreeSBIE Developer, Gentoo Developer, GUFI Staff
18 There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
19 We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson

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Re: [gentoo-dev] net-analyzer/traceroute merge strangeness Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>