From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 20 16:46: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8042237B423 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:46:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.3) with SMTP id f3KNhsp26511; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:43:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <005701c0c9f3$9ddfce20$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Patrick Calkins" , "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" References: <9B9CB6555E6BA049BC2B857E7711C24F0239AD@puke.reno.oemsupport.com> Subject: Re: Path environment var Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:42:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have been wrestling with this for months - I install a new program, it > copies its exec's into /bin /sbin /usr/local/bin, etc all just fine. But I > can't run them without explicitly calling them /usr/local/bin/whatever even > though those are in the path. Do I need to re-fresh the path, so it sees > them again?? I am using the default shell on FreeBSD 4.2 If you're using csh (which I think is the default shell), you need to issue a 'rehash' command to rebuild csh's cache of files available in the PATH. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message