Re: Big Fat Thank You !! - Cannot run executables issue

["Richard L. Alhama" <keyoz@iln.csi.com.ph>]

On 13 Oct 1998, Paul Crowley wrote:

<snip> 
Didn't everyone noticed that the "system wide" profile (/etc/profile)
includes "."?

I haven't changed my /etc/profile IIRC.

> instead.  Really, it's very easy to get into the habit and it improves 
> your security.  It used to be the case that people put "." in their
> PATH as a matter of course, but the practice died out when people
> started to worry about the security implications.
 

Admiral Charah
Technical Support Group 
Cyberspace Laoag, ISP