Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 13:19:44 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: top 3.3 nit Message-ID: <29427.837364784@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Jul 1996 09:57:22 MDT." <199607141557.JAA09439@rover.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote in message ID
<199607141557.JAA09439@rover.village.org>:
> : Its pretty much accepted that root shouldn't have . in its path.
> While true, it is irrelevant to the discussion at hand. I should be
> able to use sudo to install, or I should be able to install as me
> (with dot in my path) to some other dir that I do have privs for.
Question: Where on the path is the `.'? Is it before `/usr/bin'? I can
understand the port failing if that is the case, but not
otherwise.
Gary
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