Re: [UUG/MLUG] Running C programs

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I feel obligated to note that while making your life easy, adding "." to 
your path if you are running as root is an inherently dangerous thing.

I urge you to be in the practice of typing ./ for any known executables
not in your path and not running any unknown executables as root at all, 
ever.

Nimrod


> try:
> 
> ./a.out
> 
> Most likely, by default, current path (the ".") is not in the shell's
> access paths specified in .cshrc .bshrc or whatever the appropriate
> configuration file for your shell is.  You can modify the config file to
> include ".", and thus make your life a little easier.
> Hope that helps.
> - Paul
> 
> 
> Kermit & Ruth Shroyer wrote:
> 
> >  I just installed Redhat 6.1and am having problems running my C
> > programs after a successful compilation.  The a.out file is there but
> > the command a.out does not work.  Using cc -c with a differerent name
> > is likewise unsuccessful.  Can anyone help with this
> > problem. Thanks,Steven Shroyer
>