[smokeping-users] Traceroute feature

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Kobus,

Today Kobus Bensch wrote:

> Hello everyone
>
> I have managed to setup smokeping and i am happily smoking the
> network. I am now trying to setup the traceroute and although it
> pops up and wants to start tracing, i get the following error in
> the window:
>
> The specified type of tracerouting is only allowed for superuser
> only
>
> How do i get it to perform the trace? My smokeping speedy-cgi is
> running as apache on a centos box.

you have to make the traceroute binary setuid root

cheers
tobi

> Thanks in advance
>
> Kobus
>
>

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