Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 19:01:58 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Alex Kwan <alexkwan@pacific.net.hk> Cc: XF <gin@dds.nl>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A basic question about C programming (sloved) Message-ID: <20000514190158.A448@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <001701bfbd9d$eae8be60$591e40ca@alexkwan>; from alexkwan@pacific.net.hk on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 08:14:12PM %2B0800 References: <000701bfbd9b$fd945300$591e40ca@alexkwan> <20000514131017.A801@dds.nl> <001701bfbd9d$eae8be60$591e40ca@alexkwan>
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On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 08:14:12PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote:
>
> Thank you! it is ok now, but why?
>
> > > I compile it with "cc -o inform inform.c", when the compilation is
> > > finished, I have got the file "inform", but it can't execute and
> > > got the error "inform: Command not found", What is the problem of
> > > me?
> >
> > try ./inform
Your PATH does not include the current working directory, if you do not add
it there. For instance, on my machine I can see that:
% echo $PATH
/sbin:/bin:{lots of dirs trimmed}:~/bin
But nowhere on the path can one find the `.' directory. You can always add
the directory to your path, by adding to your .cshrc the following:
set path = ( $path . )
But this is not a recommended way of solving the problem, since it creates
various security issues, when you do it for the superuser. Just think of the
good ol' trojan called /tmp/mroe and the following commands:
# cd /tmp
# ls -l | mroe
Ciao,
Giorgos.
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