Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 15:54:40 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: splyaski@cmp.com (Plyaskin Sergey) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: path question Message-ID: <199510041454.PAA01733@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <1995Oct04.094359.1151.275833@smtpgate.cmp.com> from "Plyaskin Sergey" at Oct 4, 95 09:46:40 am
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> > > Hi folks, > > I am running FreeBSD 2.1 July SNAP. > As is, I have to use the absolute path in order to run my applications, for > example: > ./usr/local/bin/httpd This is not an absolute path, this is a relative path. Send your .cshrc/.login and your passwd entry. Does this happen under 'root'? Something must be hosed on your side. > Without that dot, it does not run even though I have /usr/local/bin in my > path. If I add dot to my path, it works but I get the error message on > login: Exported path has relative components. I also realize that including > dot in the path can be considered as a security hole. Normally the 'root' user should not have . in his path. There should appear any dots at all in your path statement besides a sole . for the normal user. > Question: is there any way of fixing that? I want to be able to run things > without memorizing their locations. Thanks. > > splyaski@cmp.com > Serge Plyaskin > CMP Publications > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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