perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Aaron Brown <>]

Hey Roderick,

You can install paris traceroute from 
http://paris-traceroute.net/downloads/packages/Centos/6/, though you’ll need 
to make the application is setuid so that the bwctl daemon can run it (i.e. 
run chmod +s /usr/bin/paris-traceroute).

I’m not sure if the Toolkit’s regular tests can parse the traceroute output 
(haven’t tried), but it’d at least let you do on-demand tests.

Cheers,
Aaron

> On Mar 24, 2015, at 3:46 AM, Roderick Mooi 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> Thanks. paris-traceroute looks interesting:
> 1. How do I use it with bwctl/perfsonar toolkit?
> 2. If I pick option 3 below, how do I do this? - I can’t find any 
> references to paris-traceroute in bwctld.conf
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Roderick
> 
>> On 24 Mar 2015, at 9:16 AM, Gaetano Vocca 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> This is not really a problem unless you are trying to use 
>> paris-traceroute. The bwctld daemon searches for all the tools it knows, 
>> on startup. In this case he can't find the executable of that tool. 
>> Three choices you have:
>> 1) ignore it
>> 2) install paris-traceroute 
>> 3) disable it in bwctld.conf
>> 
>> Regards
>> Gaetano 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Il giorno 24/mar/2015, alle ore 07:55, Roderick Mooi 
>>> <>
>>>  ha scritto:
>>> 
>>> Can anyone help with this please - what does it mean and how do I fix it?
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> /etc/init.d/bwctld stop: bwctld stopped
>>>> waiting...
>>>> /usr/bin/bwctld -c /etc/bwctld -R /var/run
>>>> bwctld[19606]: FILE=paris-traceroute.c, LINE=81, 
>>>> ParisTracerouteAvailable(): Unable to verify that 'paris-traceroute' is 
>>>> working. It may not be installed. exit status: 1: output: ExecCommand(): 
>>>> exec(paris-traceroute): No such file or directory
>>>> bwctld[19606]: FILE=tools.c, LINE=475, Couldn't initialize tool 
>>>> "paris-traceroute". Disabling it.
>>>> /etc/init.d/bwctld start: bwctld started
>>> 
>> 
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