Stupid NetBSD/SIMH question

From: Ron Hudson <ron.hudson_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Wed Jul 28 15:10:21 2004

On Jul 28, 2004, at 12:33 PM, Jay West wrote:

>
>> My guess is that "." is not in your path. It usually isn't for the
>> root
>> login. Try typing ./tetris or ./trek from the /usr/games directory.
>
> Most likely the above is the problem you're having. However, before
> you jump
> to add "." to your environment variable PATH in your login script...
> remember thats a security issue. You usually want to be very careful
> that
> you're running the system copy of vi for example, and not an
> executable that
> some miscreant has renamed from "rm" to "vi".
>
> Jay
>
> ---
> [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

Better yet... put /etc/games in your path.

If you are compiling your own files run them with ./foo or create your
own
bin directory (give everyone one and you can put ~/bin in the master
profile)

All the unixics I have known, none of them have "." in the path.

>
Received on Wed Jul 28 2004 - 15:10:21 BST