Package-propsal: Net_Traceroute
| From: | Stefan Neufeind | Date: | Sun, 10 Aug 2003 13:19:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Package-propsal: Net_Traceroute | ||
| Groups: | php.pear.dev | ||
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Hi,
there are Net_Ping and similar as OS-independent wrapper-classes.
Looking for a traceroute-interface (parsing of traceroute-output via
a wrapper) we'd like to propose Net_Traceroute. Since a good job was
done when developing Net_Ping I'd propose basing it on Net_Ping.
Normally traceroute can't be used by every user. But it's possible to
setuid on traceroute or use sudo and enable a special user (webserver-
user) to use traceroute. The sudo-version is what we'd use in this
situation. In general calling sudo or whatever can be accomplished by
choosing a $traceroutePath="/bin/sudo traceroute" or similar - quite
easy.
Interested? Your votes please.
Stefan
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