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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:45:08PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
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> (The . at the end means to look in the current directory if the executable 
> is not found elsewhere, so I can try out things I compiled without 
> installing them first on the path, 

That's considered by many to be a security risk.

An executable doesn't have to be in your PATH to be run:

./file_name  # for a file in you current directory

/full/path/file_name  # if it's anywhere else

> and /usr/local/sbin is where I put my own scripts - is there a
> more standard location?).

I use /usr/local/bin and subdirectories thereof, usually. But if
it were a script serving a function that only root would customarily
be allowed to control, then .../sbin would be the place.

Take a look at the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard:

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.2.txt.gz

Lee

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