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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!disgorge.news.demon.net!demon!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!azure.xara.net!xara.net!server6.netnews.ja.net!server1.netnews.ja.net!warwick!nntpfeed.doc.ic.ac.uk!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!dundee.ac.uk!zippy.dct.ac.uk!str-ccsun!singer.cent.gla.ac.uk!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edc ogsci!richard Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New Installation Message-ID: <EAsEKH.AD6@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 11:57:53 GMT Sender: cnews@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (C News Software) References: <5m18gk$aq7@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <33848701.953498@news.tiac.net> <EALpDE.1Fn@sphynx.fdn.fr> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh X-Nntp-Posting-Host: pitcairn Lines: 11 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41861 In article <EALpDE.1Fn@sphynx.fdn.fr> causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse) writes: >Anyway, putting the "dot" directory at the end of the path is certainly >the safest location for it, I presume! Actually, it's most important to have dot at the start of root's path in case a hacker puts a file called a.out in /bin. -- Richard -- I delete unread all email from or through Earthlink and Compuserve, because it's almost all junk mail.