Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!tekecs!frip!andrew From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: To . or not to . Message-ID: <9445@tekecs.TEK.COM> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 19:28:09 EST Article-I.D.: tekecs.9445 Posted: Tue Dec 1 19:28:09 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 03:20:00 EST References: <648@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <9171@mimsy.UUCP> <2732@umix.cc.umich.edu> <2204@killer.UUCP> Sender: nobody@tekecs.TEK.COM Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon Lines: 20 [] "(and someone else later opined that // for a root was a bad idea)" "Urph - I copy the Same Old .cshrc file from one system to another. Last night I noticed that the /.cshrc file (for root) had the line "set path=(/bin /usr/bin /etc /usr/local/bin /usr/games $home/bin) "Which is the path I've used for several years. What's going to happen to when I finally have the (mis)fortune to work on one of these network machines?" If it's one of our systems, /etc/passwd will say that root's home directory is "/." not "/", and everything will work just fine. -=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP] (andrew%tekecs.tek.com@relay.cs.net) [ARPA]