From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:00:26 +0100 From: "roger peppe" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] detecting spam In-Reply-To: <61172513-6773-4AA3-8EF0-182BD91D948B@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <98676E7E-775A-411A-B018-A3D238379E57@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp> <61172513-6773-4AA3-8EF0-182BD91D948B@mac.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: db4cf9a8-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 1) rc: the value of $path is (. /bin). It is a classic case not to > have . as the first directory when searching for programs - it allows > Trojan horses to form. i always set my path to put /bin first - it's faster when doing ls of slow network mounts anyway.