Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 07:02:45 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: splyaski@cmp.com (Plyaskin Sergey) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (' FreeBSD-questions') Subject: Re: path question Message-ID: <199510041402.HAA00133@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Oct 95 09:46:40 EDT." <1995Oct04.094359.1151.275833@smtpgate.cmp.com>
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> >Hi folks, > >I am running FreeBSD 2.1 July SNAP. >As is, I have to use the absolute path in order to run my applications, for >example: >./usr/local/bin/httpd >Without that dot, it does not run even though I have /usr/local/bin in my You apparantly don't have httpd in /usr/local/bin. It appears that you instead have it in usr/local/bin (a subdirectory of your current directory, which I would guess is your login directory). A "." it *not* an absolute path, quite the opposite; "." refers to a path relative to your current directory. -DG
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