Thanks Henk, That was very clear, now I understand :-)
Thanks to Mihai too. Kind regards Adrian ----- Original Message ----- From: Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: adrian.wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Mihai BUHA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Problem Starting Squid > On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, adrian.wells wrote: > > > When I cd /usr/local/squid/sbin and then pwd it returns the same path, so > > does this not mean that the path is correct? > > No, it still only tells you the current working directory, not the search > path for starting applications. (pwd = Print Working Directory). > > Applications in the current directory will only be started if either > > a) You start them with ./filename (recommended) > > b) You have . in your search path (not recommended due to security > implications) > > > It was not a problem before, but I have upgraded Linux SuSE 7.2 to 9.0 > > maybe it's down to a change in the version? > > All UN*X:es work the same way. No point in changing only because of this. > > But it is possible the security of your previous installation had been > relaxed to have . in the default search path. > > Regards > Henrik > >
