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From: splyaski@cmp.com (Plyaskin Sergey)
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
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From: Christoph Kukulies
To: Plyaskin Sergey
Cc: freebsd-questions
Subject: Re: path question
Date: Wednesday, October 04, 1995 3:54PM

> 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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Yes, this happens under root.

my .login file:
#
tset -Q \?$TERM
stty crt erase ^H
umask 2
#

my .cshrc file:
#
alias mail Mail
set history=1000
set savehist=1000
set path=(/sbin /usr/sbin /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin)

# directory stuff: cdpath/cd/back
# set cdpath=(/sys/{i386,} 
/usr/src/{bin,sbin,usr.{bin,sbin},lib,libexec,share,contrib,e
tc,games,gnu,include,})
alias   cd      'set old=$cwd; chdir \!*'
alias   h       history
alias   j       jobs -l
alias   ll      ls -lg
alias   ls      ls -g -k
alias   back    'set back=$old; set old=$cwd; cd $back; unset back; dirs'

alias   z       suspend
alias   x       exit
alias   pd      pushd
alias   pd2     pushd +2
alias   pd3     pushd +3
alias   pd4     pushd +4
alias   tset    'set noglob histchars=""; eval `\tset -s \!*`; unset noglob 
histchars'

if ($?prompt) then
        set prompt="`hostname -s`# "
        set filec
endif
setenv BLOCKSIZE K
#