From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 13 6:10:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from bootes.ebtech.net (bootes.ebtech.net [142.250.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8536014C25 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 06:10:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@geeky1.ebtech.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by bootes.ebtech.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with UUCP id IAA04669; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:35:45 -0400 Received: from localhost (paul@localhost) by geeky1.ebtech.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with SMTP id IAA23536; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:56:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:56:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Anderson To: Michael Henry Cc: Ng Kok Leong , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: path In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Michael Henry wrote: > > Notice the last entry ".", so the shell will look in the current > directory. > Of course, ignoring the fact that it has the potential to be a pretty big security hole, typing ./ before commands that are in the current directory that aren't in the path is a good habit to get into. TTYL! --- Paul Anderson - Self-employed Megalomaniac paul@geeky1.ebtech.net Member of the Sarnia Linux User's Group http://www.sar-net.com/slug http://zephyr.sellad.on.ca/~paul "Town pride's been going downhill ever since the lake caught fire." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message