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To: peter@hw.nl (Peter Korsten)
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Subject: Re: Can't get `.' off of root's path 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>> What's even worse... if I do an...
>> 
>>    echo $PATH
>> 
>> dot isn't there.  
>
>No idea about that. Not even at the very end?

   Make sure you don't have a ":" (a null path component) at the end, either,
since this is equivalent to the current directory ("."). Also make sure that
there are no relative path specifications (no leading "/" or contains a "..").

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project