I just noticed that I was able to execute programs in the current directory without prefixing their names with ./ and without having . in my $PATH. After saying WTF? a number of times I finally figured out that it's related to my PATH being defined with a leading colon, sorta like this:
export PATH=:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr:local/bin ...so those of you who (for security reasons) are careful to exclude "." from your $PATH need also be careful about leading colons, apparently... _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
