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KevinO plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 09 Aug 2002 21:37:10 -0700


George Toft wrote:
>>to prevent this aggravation in the future, add to your .bashrc file:
>>PATH=".:$PATH"
> 
> 
> Never, ever, ever do this to your root account.  This offense will
> downgrade your performance evaluations in some places as it demostrates
> severe ineptitude and a lack of understanding on basic Unix security.

I would just add that if he does choose to modify his path, as a user, that he 
put the current working directory at the end of the path :

export PATH="$PATH:."


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KevinO

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