Re: Definitely straying: Was: Re: Danger of stray : in PATH, Re: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Petter Adsen wrote: > OK, this is veering off-topic - apologies in advance. From what I > understand, LD_LIBRARY_PATH contains additional places to look for > libraries that aren't in ld.so.conf. Off the original topic maybe but definitely a technical discussion of something important to Debian an

Definitely straying: Was: Re: Danger of stray : in PATH, Re: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-25 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 24 May 2015 21:03:38 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Petter Adsen: > > > PS: What _are_ the security implications of having a PATH set to > > > "/foo/bar:"? > >... > > $ cd /home/evilperson/malicious-programs/ > > $ emaca (oops, I mistyped emacs. Funny, why

Re: Danger of stray : in PATH, Re: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-24 Thread Bob Proulx
David Wright wrote: > Quoting Petter Adsen: > > PS: What _are_ the security implications of having a PATH set to > > "/foo/bar:"? >... > $ cd /home/evilperson/malicious-programs/ > $ emaca (oops, I mistyped emacs. Funny, why are my files disappearing?) > (oh dear, their file "emac

Danger of stray : in PATH, Re: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-24 Thread David Wright
Quoting Petter Adsen (pet...@synth.no): > PS: What _are_ the security implications of having a PATH set to > "/foo/bar:"? man bash: PATH The search path for commands. It is a colon-separated list of directories in which the shell looks for commands (see COMMAND EXECUTION below

Re: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 14:28:54 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:36:31 -0400 > > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/mopac/MOPAC2012.exe:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" > > > > This is an obvious thing that jumps out at me, this line should be: > > > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/mopac:$LD

Re: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:36:31 -0400 > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/mopac/MOPAC2012.exe:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" > > This is an obvious thing that jumps out at me, this line should be: > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/mopac:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" > > as LD_LIBRARY_PATH is meant to contain directorie

RE: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-23 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
-Original Message- From: Petter Adsen [mailto:pet...@synth.no] Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2015 9:47 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problem Running Application with Alias On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:36:31 -0400 "Sephen P. Molnar" wrote: > VI am running Wheezy (v

Re: Problem Running Application with Alias

2015-05-23 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 23 May 2015 09:36:31 -0400 "Sephen P. Molnar" wrote: > VI am running Wheezy (v-7.8.0) in a VM and have encountered rather a > strange problem .with an application, MOPAC (a well established > quantum chemistry program). > > The application is installed in /opt/mopac (required by the >