From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 13:33:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA00156 for current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:33:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA00145 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:33:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA27813; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:33:25 -0700 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:33:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny To: Warner Losh cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /usr/bin/install in -current broken In-Reply-To: <199610092024.OAA22765@rover.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Warner Losh wrote: > : Actually, you're right and thanks for pointing it out so how do I > : tell which install the make install wants? > > It almost always wants /usr/bin/install :-) It generally uses the > first 'install' program in your path. You might want to move '.' to > be the last component in your path, since that fixes this and other > problems building many of the ports or other random software off the > net. You especially don't want to have it in root's path, since that > can lead to trojans and such. Hmmm, is moving the '.' to the last component in the path still a security risk? I guess you are right that I don't want to have it in root's path but I guess as the last component it should be okay since no one can name something with the same name and have me run it... =) > BTW, your message nearly gave me heart failure, since I was the last > person to touch install... :-) Sorry about that, I thought it was the install but then later I saw my make world just did fine with install so it couldn't be... It used to be that when install failed for a port, I just rebuild the install and it would work. =) Cheers, -Vince- GaiaNet Corporation Unix Networking Operations