Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 11:25:32 -0400 From: splyaski@cmp.com (Plyaskin Sergey) To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (freebsd-questions) Subject: Re: path question Message-ID: <1995Oct04.111400.1151.276216@smtpgate.cmp.com>
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From: Christoph Kukulies
To: Plyaskin Sergey
Cc: freebsd-questions
Subject: Re: path question
Date: Wednesday, October 04, 1995 3:54PM
> 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
This is not an absolute path, this is a relative path.
Send your .cshrc/.login and your passwd entry. Does this happen under
'root'?
Something must be hosed on your side.
> Without that dot, it does not run even though I have /usr/local/bin in my
> path. If I add dot to my path, it works but I get the error message on
> login: Exported path has relative components. I also realize that
including
> dot in the path can be considered as a security hole.
Normally the 'root' user should not have . in his path. There should appear
any
dots at all in your path statement besides a sole . for the normal user.
> Question: is there any way of fixing that? I want to be able to run
things
> without memorizing their locations. Thanks.
>
> splyaski@cmp.com
> Serge Plyaskin
> CMP Publications
>
>
--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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Yes, this happens under root.
my .login file:
#
tset -Q \?$TERM
stty crt erase ^H
umask 2
#
my .cshrc file:
#
alias mail Mail
set history=1000
set savehist=1000
set path=(/sbin /usr/sbin /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin)
# directory stuff: cdpath/cd/back
# set cdpath=(/sys/{i386,}
/usr/src/{bin,sbin,usr.{bin,sbin},lib,libexec,share,contrib,e
tc,games,gnu,include,})
alias cd 'set old=$cwd; chdir \!*'
alias h history
alias j jobs -l
alias ll ls -lg
alias ls ls -g -k
alias back 'set back=$old; set old=$cwd; cd $back; unset back; dirs'
alias z suspend
alias x exit
alias pd pushd
alias pd2 pushd +2
alias pd3 pushd +3
alias pd4 pushd +4
alias tset 'set noglob histchars=""; eval `\tset -s \!*`; unset noglob
histchars'
if ($?prompt) then
set prompt="`hostname -s`# "
set filec
endif
setenv BLOCKSIZE K
#
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