Tracing Connections, Multiplayer Debugging

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I've found on the Mac that there is a similar command to tracert on the PC, 'traceroute' infact it can also pipe out to a file, so:

traceroute www.simtouringcarcup.com >myTrace.txt

will create a file called myTrace.txt with the results of the traceroute, GREAT!

However, I cannot figure out how to call this from the program , i'm using OpenURL at the moment and it just doesn't work at all and I dont really know why. I need it to launch traceroute and then silently exit, does anyone have any ideas please?