This is a kind of security setting especially for SysAdmin, well known on HP-UX,
if the path of the executable is not in the search path.

Basically, you have to overcome two restrictions: the program/script itself must
have x access on the right level for your UserID, and the phaenomen you
mentioned in your post.

To overcome the 1st without changing the mode is . ./command (put a point and a
blank in front of.

Hope that will clear a little bit, Andreas Schmidt, CSC, Germany





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Pardon me, my posix ignorance it showing!

I am curious about something that I have been running into in the posix
shell.  Why do I have to qualify the name of a script to be run with "./"?
If I have the script "test" in the directory "/SYS/CARL/" and I am in the
CARL directory I have to run the test script by typing "./test".  Why can't
I just type "test" and have it run?



Carl McNamee
Systems Administrator
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