From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 27 17:05:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA01171 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 17:05:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from atlantis.nconnect.net (root@atlantis.nconnect.net [206.54.227.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA01160 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 17:05:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from arabian.astrolab.org (dial66.nconnect.net [206.54.227.66]) by atlantis.nconnect.net (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA02923; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 18:58:41 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <32ED5069.167EB0E7@nconnect.net> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 19:03:37 -0600 From: Randy DuCharme Organization: Computer Specialists X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-SMP i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dg@root.com CC: Peter Korsten , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't get `.' off of root's path References: <199701270858.AAA10463@root.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Greenman wrote: > > >> 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 I've taken the path(s) completely out of .login, .cshrc, /etc/csh.login, /etc/csh.cshrc, and, .profile & /etc/profile (just in case I've missed some change that made csh read .profile) and it's still there. Only on my current machines, not on my 2.1.5, 2.1.6, or 2.2SNAP machines. Format and start over ?? :) -- Randall D. DuCharme email: randyd@nconnect.net Systems Engineer Computer Specialists 414-259-9998 414-253-9919