And as a word of caution, some like to add '.' to their path in order to save typing
an extra two
letters ('./' in front of the file name). Don't do this, though, as this is a major
security
hole.
Using google to search for 'current directory path linux security hole' for many
examples of this
hole.
Cheers,
Ovid
--- fliptop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 at 22:36, Octavian Rasnita opined:
>
> [snip]
> OR:I've tried chmodding the perl script to 755, and I've tried running it
> OR:with:
> OR:
> OR:$ script.pl
> OR:
> OR:...but it didn't want to run, telling me that there is no command
> OR:script.pl, even though the script has a shebang line in it.
>
> you may want to try it again by specifying './script.pl' because if the
> directory '.' is not in your PATH, it won't find the file.
>
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