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[Fred James]

That's because the directory that contains linuxconf is defined in the 
environment path, and the system knows where to look for it.

In setting up a "launcher" it is just as easy, and perhaps safer, to 
just use the full path rather than define the path in the environment.

For programs not in the path, you need to tell the system where they 
are, either with a full path name, or a relative path name.
(like ./filename)

Patrick Parks wrote:

> On Thu, 2001-08-23 at 19:03, Fred James wrote:
> 
>> Just a touch more detail:
>> In any given Linux/Unix directory there are two special files, . and .. 
>> (dot, and dot dot).
>> 
> 
> Ok, That makes sense to me, so how would I make a file execute in any dir I am in, like when I am logged in as root, and I can type 
> linuxconf from any directory that I am in and it executes? Is this called a symbolic link? Sorry to flood the list with newby questions, but I am a newby :)
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