Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 19:26:30 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Browning <brownicm@netunlimited.net> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Chris <chrismar@walnut.readington.com> Subject: Re: executable scripts Message-ID: <XFMail.990102192630.brownicm@netunlimited.net> In-Reply-To: <19990102144023.B18130@wopr.caltech.edu>
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So to answer my own dumb question... I should put the script in /usr/bin or some other directory on the path? I don't really care what directory it's in, that was just the directory I happened to be working from. Maybe the AIX box had . in the path. Sounds like a bad idea to me. On 02-Jan-99 Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 02:39:17PM -0500, Chris wrote: > >> Or, an easier approch would be to add . to your path, that will always >> make your current directory be in your path > > This is a bad idea due to security concerns, and is addressed in the > comp.unix.questions FAQ, under 2.13: > > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part2/ > > -- > Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Inertia is a property of matter. > http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Chris Browning <brownicm@netunlimited.net> Date: 02-Jan-99 Time: 19:23:21 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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