whois and traceroute commands help !!

[daredevil]

am using breezy... i could not run whois and traceroute commands and other related commands....... may b i left some packages uninstalled....

sriram@Home:~$ whois 192.168.1.2
bash: whois: command not found
sriram@Home:~$ traceroute 192.168.1.2
bash: traceroute: command not found
sriram@Home:~$

help plz
thnx in advance

[JayBee]

Re: whois and traceroute commands help !!

What happens when you do:

sudo su

and then try the traceroute or whois commands as root?

On some systems, at least "traceroute" can only be used by root, because it lives in /usr/sbin.

[daredevil]

Re: whois and traceroute commands help !!

i think this not kind of priviledge problem. the problem is "command not found"... i tried wat u said but in vain...

BTW how to revert back to normal user after switching to super user with

sudo su

...........

Thnk u for helping

[kubicle]

Re: whois and traceroute commands help !!

Have you got packages 'whois' and 'traceroute' installed?

[daredevil]

Re: whois and traceroute commands help !!

ya it worked after installing the packages sorry for my silly question

[JayBee]

Re: whois and traceroute commands help !!

Good to see your problem is solved. 

"Command not found" is also the error you get when you try to execute a command and you don't have the necessary permissions to do so. Hence my suggestion about trying it as root.
When you are finished with "sudo su", just type "exit" to go back to your own account and permissions.

[daredevil]

Re: whois and traceroute commands help !!

thnk you JayBee... am still learning

[JayBee]

Re: whois and traceroute commands help !!

No problem