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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD: executables in working dir Date: 5 Jul 1994 20:40:56 +0200 Organization: A Happy FreeBSD-current Usenet Site Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2vc9g6$11q@keltia.frmug.fr.net> References: <2v9of3$46t@ohlone.kn.PacBell.COM> <JKH.94Jul4210444@whisker.hubbard.ie> <2valvp$egd@Mercury.mcs.com> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <2valvp$egd@Mercury.mcs.com>, Daniel Leeds <dleeds@MCS.COM> wrote: >Jordan Hubbard (jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie) wrote: >: 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. Better, if you want the possibility of running in-place-binaries and not the security hole of putting "." at the beginning of the PATH (like many DOSsers generally do to get the same behaviour as DOS), just put it at the END of the PATH. You can use TCSH, last is 6.05 (great) which does it automatically but can be disabled at compile time. ftp://tesla.ee.cornell.edu/pub/tcsh/tcsh-6.05.tar.gz -- Ollivier ROBERT roberto@hsc.fr.net Hervé Schauer Consultants Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net PERL / MIME / PGP 2.6ui FreeBSD keltia 1.1.5(RELEASE) CURRENT_145#0 i386