From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 7:40:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09FB1154EE for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 07:40:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.196.47]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAB6CF7; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:40:38 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA65657; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:37:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:37:08 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Kent Stewart Cc: chris@tourneyland.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.3-Release - problem with PATH? Message-ID: <19991004163708.O63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <3.0.6.32.19991003122429.008dea80@mail.9netave.net> <37F7CCFF.D2B7DC70@3-cities.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <37F7CCFF.D2B7DC70@3-cities.com> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On [19991003 23:46], Kent Stewart (kstewart@3-cities.com) wrote: >chris@tourneyland.com wrote: >> >> I just upgraded from 3.2 Release to 3.3 Release. No problems, except it >> seems that now my PATH variable is being ignored. My PATH is just fine, >> except trying to execute anything on the path (e.g. bash) gives me 'command >> not found'. Using the full path name works fine. >> >It is the kind of response you get when "." isn't in your path. I >personally don't have dot in my path and I have to run via ./program. From a security perspective that's the best thing to do. Using a . in your PATH makes you way less careful about running unknown programs. So I always recommend not putting a . in one's PATH. Seems most Linux people do indeed put the . in there. *sigh* -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Whispering winds in moonlit wood, a totem oak once golden stood... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message