Re: Unable to start program

1998-04-08 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > root's initialization files, or into the system-wide path. (I should > > qualify this with the statement that I don't completely understand why > > this is a security hole when it's done as the

Re: Unable to start program

1998-04-08 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I should point out that it is considered a bad security idea to put > "." (or in fact any directory name that doesn't begin with "/") in > root's PATH. If you're just wanting to do something one time, it > might be ok to do 'PATH=$PATH:.' as abo

Re: Unable to start program

1998-04-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Gabrie van Zanten wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Sometimes I see a program (I think) but I can't run it, even though I'm > > using root. Like this one: > > -rwxr-xr-x XF86_S3V 2043768 > > > > I thought I could at least run it and get an

Re: Unable to start program

1998-04-06 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Gabrie van Zanten wrote: > Hi, > > Sometimes I see a program (I think) but I can't run it, even though I'm > using root. Like this one: > -rwxr-xr-x XF86_S3V 2043768 > > I thought I could at least run it and get an error, but Linux says: command > not found. I had this too

Re: Unable to start program

1998-04-06 Thread Bradley Bell
Gabrie van Zanten wrote: > Sometimes I see a program (I think) but I can't run it, even though I'm > using root. Like this one: > -rwxr-xr-x XF86_S3V 2043768 > > I thought I could at least run it and get an error, but Linux says: command > not found. I had this too when installing fortune. Afte

Unable to start program

1998-04-06 Thread Gabrie van Zanten
Hi, Sometimes I see a program (I think) but I can't run it, even though I'm using root. Like this one: -rwxr-xr-x XF86_S3V 2043768 I thought I could at least run it and get an error, but Linux says: command not found. I had this too when installing fortune. After logging in as a user I could r