I read this and tried to create a symlink from /usr/bin to my Mozilla
directory. But when I run mozilla I get the message 'run-mozilla.sh: no
such file or directory'. This happens even if I create symlinks to
run-mozilla.sh as well. What have I done wrong?
Dave
Jan Wilson wrote:
>
> * rich [000416 22:04]:
> > I know this is probably a dumb question, but how do you add a directory to the
> > path.... For instance, instead of going to /root/mozilla/ to run ./mozzila,
> > I would like to be able to type ./mozilla in any directory.
>
> If you type ./mozilla you are saying, "run the executable file
> mozilla, which you will find in the current directory." So that
> has nothing directly to do with the path.
>
> The path you are talking about is the environment variable
> $PATH, which gives a sequence of directories to search if no path
> is given. That is, you type 'mozilla' rather than './mozilla' or
> '/usr/bin/mozilla' or whatever. It is usually set in shell
> scripts in /etc/profile, or in the directory /etc/profile.d/ or
> in the user's home directory in a file like .bashrc ...
>
> One note, though. Be careful. Linux will happily let you add a
> world-writeable directory to the beginning of your path. In that
> case anyone could add a shell script named 'mozilla' into that
> directory and when you type mozilla you will run it. If it does
> whatever it wants to, and then runs the regular mozilla, you
> probably won't know that someone has hijacked your system. For
> this reason some recommend using symlinks or typing the full
> path. They must type faster than I do ;-)
>
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