Re: Trivial script will NOT execute

2016-11-07 Thread David Wright
On Mon 07 Nov 2016 at 07:59:25 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 10:42:46AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > The current working directory is included here three times???at the > > beginning, middle and end. > > > > :/usr/bin::/bin:. > > Including the current directory in

Re: Trivial script will NOT execute

2016-11-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 10:42:46AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > The current working directory is included here three times???at the > beginning, middle and end. > > :/usr/bin::/bin:. Including the current directory in one's PATH (either by using "." explicitly, or by using an empty string) is

Re: Trivial script will NOT execute

2016-11-05 Thread David Wright
On Fri 04 Nov 2016 at 20:37:53 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/4/2016 7:54 PM, John L. Ries wrote: > >Any chance the current directory is not in your path? > > > > That's not a mere 'scary' thought, > it is a *TERRIFYING* thought :< Steady on... > "Why?" you may ask. > " 'cause it

Re: Trivial script will NOT execute

2016-11-04 Thread John L. Ries
| Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Friday 2016-11-04 19:37, Richard Owlett wrote: >Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 19:37:53 >From: Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >

Re: Trivial script will NOT execute

2016-11-04 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
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

Re: Trivial script will NOT execute

2016-11-04 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/4/2016 7:54 PM, John L. Ries wrote: Any chance the current directory is not in your path? That's not a mere 'scary' thought, it is a *TERRIFYING* thought :< "Why?" you may ask. " 'cause it implies an intrinsic failure of *nix documentation." As a computer *USER* I predate CPM80. I've

Re: Trivial script will NOT execute

2016-11-04 Thread sunrise
On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 19:51:50 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: >Today I've been having weird problems executing scripts. >As I have no valuable data on the partition containing Debian, I >wiped it and did a fresh install of Debian Jessie (8.6.0) MATE >desktop environment from

Re: Trivial script will NOT execute

2016-11-04 Thread Christian Seiler
On 11/05/2016 01:51 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Today I've been having weird problems executing scripts. > As I have no valuable data on the partition containing Debian, I > wiped it and did a fresh install of Debian Jessie (8.6.0) MATE > desktop environment from a purchased set of DVDs. Earlier

Re: Trivial script will NOT execute

2016-11-04 Thread John L. Ries
Any chance the current directory is not in your path? --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On 11/4/16 6:51 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Today I've been having weird

Trivial script will NOT execute

2016-11-04 Thread Richard Owlett
Today I've been having weird problems executing scripts. As I have no valuable data on the partition containing Debian, I wiped it and did a fresh install of Debian Jessie (8.6.0) MATE desktop environment from a purchased set of DVDs. Earlier today I had had reason to create an *,iso of DVD1