Wow, I got flogged pretty hard on that one.  It just goes to show that
there's always something to learn and early habits aren't always right.
Where I first learned this was at an applications development company
that set up boxes for non-computer-savvy operators.  I was doing testing
at the time, and I'm sure I was, to them, just another one of the
DOS-world simpletons that they dealt with in the field.

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
der.hans
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 12:53 AM
To: PLUG Discuss
Subject: RE: Help


Am 09. Aug, 2002 schwätzte George Toft so:

> > 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.

Also never put the dot before anything else. If you have dot, make sure
it's the last thing.

Best is to just learn to use dotslash, ./.  :)

ciao,

der.hans
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#  and a noose to your neck,
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