David Tomic wrote: > G.W. Haywood wrote: >> Hello again, >> >> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, David Tomic wrote: >> >> >>> If I execute the same command as smokeping is doing, then I seem to get >>> proper results... >>> >> >> Do you by any chance have two different versions of tcpping and/or >> tcptraceroute installed on the system? >> > > No I don't. In any case, Smokeping and I are both executing exactly > the same path/command, so it should be okay right? > > One thing that I have wondered about, is whether this could be some > sort of permissions problem somewhere? > > My login is just a "normal" user account [IE - I'm not logged in as > root or anything], and I don't seem to have any problems executing > tcpping/tcptraceroute from there, so is it possible that there could > still be some sort of permissions error somewhere that's causing this > problem? > > FWIW I'm running Ubuntu 8.04, and just installed Smokeping through > their software repository. As part of that installation, it seems to > have created a seperate 'smokeping' user + group, so could that > possibly have something to do with the problem? > > I'm still [relatively] new to the whole Linux world, so I'm sure that > I don't quite have my head around all these permissions/etc properly yet. > > Is there an easy way to check and/or rule out any sort of permission > error as the source of my problem? > > Again ... much appreciated for all your help! > > Regards, > --David Tomic >
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