On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 13:54 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 23:24 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > have . in your > > $PATH. I recall somewhere, sometime a warning against that....but > I've > > ignored it for years and haven't had a problem. I even forgot what > the > > warning was all about. > > Generally it's not a good thing to have a different command be > executed > depending on what directory you happen to be in when executing it. > That > is at best unreliable, and at worst a major security hole. I completely agree, but in this case I wanted a highly special-purpose script that would only ever be run in a specific directory, and didn't overload any system command. I decided just to put it in my ~/bin, where it works fine. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
