[newbie] Adding dirs to the path

2000-10-16 Thread Michael Lueck
/etc/profile has a comment that PATH is taken care of by Mandrake Security. Removing the # and adding dirs has no affect on the path. Could someone point out: 1) Where Mandrake hides the ability to update the path 2) Where this and other differences in Mandrake vs popular Linux how-to books are

Re: [newbie] Adding dirs to the path

2000-10-16 Thread Larry Marshall
/etc/profile has a comment that PATH is taken care of by Mandrake Security. Removing the # and adding dirs has no affect on the path. Could someone point out: You didn't say why you wanted to change the path but I think you're looking in the wrong place. 1) Where Mandrake hides the

Re: [newbie] Adding dirs to the path

2000-10-16 Thread John Hendrickx
3) Is it a standard *nix security configuration to not search the current directory? Most annoying for an OS/2, Win32, DOS based person. grin...I recall an explanation of this at one point but I can't recall There's an answer to this in the comp.unix.questions faq. The example they give

Re: [newbie] Adding dirs to the path

2000-10-16 Thread Michael Lueck
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:10:01 -0400 (EDT), Larry Marshall wrote: /etc/profile has a comment that PATH is taken care of by Mandrake Security. Removing the # and adding dirs has no affect on the path. Could someone point out: You didn't say why you wanted to change the path but I think you're