[smokeping-users] smoketrace problem

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Asim,

Set your traceroute utility to run setuid root.

cheers
tobi

Today asim hafeez wrote:

> David Thanks for your help i'm really very thankful to you.
> I've resolved this apache issue and its begin to work now. but now
> there is another issue with when i write any destination in HOST , it
> show under HOST " The specified type of tracerouting is allowed for
> superuser only."
> Any idea please....
>
> Regards
> Asim
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:19 AM, David Tomic <tomic.david at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What's the contents of your .htaccess file?
> >
> > Are you sure that Apache is configured to to use .htaccess files?
> >
> > If you put another cgi script in your smokeping folder [something simple
> > like - http://perl.about.com/od/perltutorials/a/hellocgi.htm] and try
> > opening that in your browser, does that work properly or not?
> >
> > IE - Do you see the proper html output, or just the raw code as it's saved
> > in the file?
> >
> > If that script doesn't run properly, then I'd guess that Apache isn't setup
> > to read your .htaccess file properly.
> >
> > It should be pretty easy to find how to enable htaccess files through
> > Google.
> > The process will be different depending on whether you're running Apache 1.x
> > or 2.x, so I can't tell you for sure how to do it.
> >
> > Let me know how you go, and if you've got any other problems ...
> >
> > asim hafeez wrote:
> >>
> >> David you are right. i think there is problem with permissions, can
> >> you please help me to resolve this issue , here are the details
> >>
> >> .htaccess file permission is 755 owned by apache apache but still i'm
> >> unable to process with tr.cgi, please help.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Asim
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:12 AM, David Tomic <tomic.david at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> If I remember correctly, that probably means that you haven't given the
> >>> smoketrace cgi file [tr.cgi] proper permissions to execute.
> >>>
> >>> Did you follow the documentation about creating a .htaccess file to allow
> >>> cgi execution in your smokeping directoy?
> >>>
> >>> You could also try running another simple cgi script in your smokeping
> >>> directory, just to make sure that your permissions etc are set/working
> >>> properly.
> >>>
> >>> http://perl.about.com/od/perltutorials/a/hellocgi.htm
> >>>
> >>> 2008/8/6 asim hafeez <asim.mcp at gmail.com>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi
> >>>>
> >>>> I can open smoketrace page, but when i try to trace any destination it
> >>>> just show me starting only and does not work.
> >>>> Any help please?
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>>
> >>>> Best Regards
> >>>> Asim
> >>>>
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