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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Paths in FreeBSD
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On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, David Brockus wrote:

> I am running FreeBSD 2.0.5R.  I have a problem with the path settings.  
> I have a prolem with directories that are not in the path.  I can not 
> execute a files in those directories by just typing thier name.  I must 
> type 
> 
> ./
> 
> to indicate the current directory and then type the file name.

This is standard Unix procedure.  After running DOS a while you have to 
get into the habit :-)

> Adding "." to the path in the .cshrc file seems to fix this but I get 
> this error message
> 
> Warning: exported path contains relative components.
> 
> I was wondering what the correct solutions is? Thanks in advance

It's to warn you to watch out what you're running.  It's pretty easy to 
fool someone into running a destructive script this way (ie, if you type 
``pine'' just after you login, someone could put a ``pine'' script in 
your home dir that does ``rm *'' instead).

If you have binaries/scripts you run a lot make a directory called ``bin''
off your home directory and put them in there; ~/bin is in the path by
default. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major