The highlighted blank entry in $PATH is the equivalent of having a dot "." in $PATH (which is a known security issue). When your current working directory is the same as the script it will execute if the script is executable and the user has permission to execute the script.
It is more secure to create a central scripts directory with the scripts owned by root and each script with permissions 755. Then append the scripts directory to $PATH in each user's .profile. Where there is a mixture of user groups on a machine it can be necessary to set the permissions to 750 and use secondary groups to control who can execute a script.
A central script can then be executed with the command you describe. We use this technique extensively for ease of maintenance. Also if a user owns a script they can change or delete it !
Hi there,
I am writing a script to look for tmp log files that have not been access within the last 10 days.
I am using the follwing command within the script:
find /var/tmp -name *log -atime -9 ¦xargs
What I would like to be able to do would be to display a message if there is no... (3 Replies)
I have shell script as below:
#!/bin/ksh
#set -xv
function set_variable
{
VARIABLE_NAME=$1
CURRENT_PATH=`pwd`
if ; then
echo "\nconfiguration_file.lst file not found in $CURRENT_PATH/common/common_scripts"
exit 1;
fi
VARIABLE_COUNT=`cat... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am a newbie for shell programming and met some question about redirect output to a file. See the details.
#!/usr/bin/sh
...
./doSomething.pl >> RAW_DATA
echo "testing is done !" >> RAW_DATA
Descirption:
doSomething.pl do a bit complex things and output some message. I append... (3 Replies)
Hi i'm new to the forum and was hoping someone could help me with the following query.
I do alot of testing and have hundreds of log files output. I have a script (someone else wrote) which finds all the passed and failed logs and puts a number in a column onto a webpage:
e.g:
Pass ... (4 Replies)
I am executing the following script in a bash shell in solaris and it throws up the following message :
But i get the output that i require nevertheless. Can anyone please spot what is causing the warning and how do i get it go away?
VAR1="e6842w2334f76figtl5.systems.grp"
if 76fig`... (2 Replies)
I am trying to execute a script called tfile.sh in a bash shell in solaris and it throws up the following message
I am getting the required output after this message. How do i get the message to disappear. Can someone please point out my mistake in the script? Thanks in advance
... (13 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I am very much new to linux scripting, I am currently working on reducing my manual work and hence writing a script to automate few task.
I am running below command to snmpwalk the router..
snmpwalk -v 3 -u WANDL_SU -a MD5 -A vfipmpls -x DES -X VfIpMpLs -l authPriv... (19 Replies)
Hi All,
I am working with a XML file.
Below is part for the file.
<Emp:Profile>
<Emp:Description>Admin</Emp:Description>
<Emp:Id>12347</Emp:Id>
</Emp:Profile>
<Emp:Profile>
... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I am new to shell scripting. I have a requirement as part of my job to find out null/empty values in column 2 and column 3 from a CSV file and exit the further execution of script by displaying a simple error message.
I have developed a script to do this by reading various articles... (7 Replies)
Script name is test.ksh
I know that that the ssh command is working properly, this can be verified by the value returned in respond variable. It is unique to the remote server
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respond=$(ssh $remoteHost find... (3 Replies)
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gzexe
GZEXE(1) General Commands Manual GZEXE(1)NAME
gzexe - compress executable files in place
SYNOPSIS
gzexe name ...
DESCRIPTION
The gzexe utility allows you to compress executables in place and have them automatically uncompress and execute when you run them (at a
penalty in performance). For example if you execute ``gzexe /usr/bin/gdb'' it will create the following two files:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1026675 Jun 7 13:53 /usr/bin/gdb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2304524 May 30 13:02 /usr/bin/gdb~
/usr/bin/gdb~ is the original file and /usr/bin/gdb is the self-uncompressing executable file. You can remove /usr/bin/gdb~ once you are
sure that /usr/bin/gdb works properly.
This utility is most useful on systems with very small disks.
OPTIONS -d Decompress the given executables instead of compressing them.
SEE ALSO gzip(1), znew(1), zmore(1), zcmp(1), zforce(1)CAVEATS
The compressed executable is a shell script. This may create some security holes. In particular, the compressed executable relies on the
PATH environment variable to find gzip and some standard utilities (basename, chmod, ln, mkdir, mktemp, rm, sleep, and tail).
BUGS
gzexe attempts to retain the original file attributes on the compressed executable, but you may have to fix them manually in some cases,
using chmod or chown.
GZEXE(1)