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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!bigbang!ahabig From: ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to configure network under FreeBSD Date: 11 Jan 1996 16:47:25 GMT Organization: Indiana University Astrophysics, Bloomington, IN Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4d3eut$cc3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> References: <4zF8wkoYzg8L084yn@hntp2.hinet.net> <4cr4qh$pl@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4d25np$c8o@news.voicenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbang.astro.indiana.edu The Notorious B.S.D. <The Notorious B.S.D.> wrote: >j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: > >> You don't have `.' in your path. Unlike >>messy dos, unix doesn't have this automagically > >> (and the superuser should never have it at all). > >^^^^^^ how come? because it increases the chance that you'll accidentally run a program that you're not intending to run. As root, that could be disasterous. -- Alec Habig, Indiana University High Energy Astrophysics ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu http://www.astro.indiana.edu/home/ahabig/ Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns.