On 05/11/16 14:19, Christian Seiler wrote:
By default for security reasons the current directory is not in the PATH environment variable on Linux.
I will never again permit "." in my $PATH since the day I tried to run killall (meaning /usr/bin/killall) while in /etc/init.d on a production Red Hat server. Unbeknownst to me, a "helpful" fellow admin had put "." at the front of root's $PATH, so /etc/init.d/killall ran (part of the shutdown process) and left the system in an unusable hung state, requiring me to obtain physical access, perform a hard reset, and go into hiding.
+1 for ./scriptname or scripts installed in well-defined bin directories that have a well-considered order on the $PATH.
Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand
