Re: Missing Traceroute

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister@localhost.localdomain)
Date: 12/29/01 

From: BitTwister@localhost.localdomain (Bit Twister)
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 17:55:49 GMT

In article <3C2DFD43.712FD2C2@sbcglobal.net>, KokChye Lee wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just realised that I do not have traceroute in my system. I believe
> that is highly abnormal.

As root,
updatedb runs for awhile to build file location database
locate traceroute | grep bin/

if not found, someone deleted it.

>I did check all my logs and did not find
> anything weird/out of the ordinary. Is there anyway to find out exactly
> what happened to my traceroute?

Maybe
        grep traceroute .bash_history
for each account

or
        grep rm .bash_history
for each account

> How can I go about to replace it back?

Load it from the cd's

> I'm running RH6.1 2.2.12-20. I know this is an extremely old version but
> I need it to run some apps that requires this setup. 

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