Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:37:08 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: chris@tourneyland.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.3-Release - problem with PATH? Message-ID: <19991004163708.O63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <37F7CCFF.D2B7DC70@3-cities.com> References: <3.0.6.32.19991003122429.008dea80@mail.9netave.net> <37F7CCFF.D2B7DC70@3-cities.com>
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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 <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; 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
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