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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: dleeds@MCS.COM (Daniel Leeds) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD: executables in working dir Date: 4 Jul 1994 23:02:01 -0500 Organization: MCSNet Subscriber Account, Chicago's First Public-Access Internet! Lines: 24 Message-ID: <2valvp$egd@Mercury.mcs.com> References: <2v9of3$46t@ohlone.kn.PacBell.COM> <JKH.94Jul4210444@whisker.hubbard.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2 (KSD)] Jordan Hubbard (jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie) wrote: : In article <2v9of3$46t@ohlone.kn.PacBell.COM> smui@news.kn.PacBell.COM (Sherman Mui) writes: : I'm having a strange problem. Executables in my current working directory : won't execute. For some reason it doesn't look at them. I have to give an : explicit path. : what am I doing wrong?! thanks! : Sounds like you don't have `.' in your $PATH! Heh, but don't add it! Security no no there. It adds the posibility of trojans(no, not the condoms) etc... Use ./(file) to run it from the directory. For a stand alone system I guess it doesnt matter but all it takes is one little glitch like a script named ls that deletes a hard drive... -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Daniel Leeds "Police want to believe that FreeBSD 1.1 dleeds@mcs.com all hackers are thieves...." salmacis -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=