From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 12 01:03:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EDF816A4B3 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 01:03:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC5143FBD for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 01:03:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h9C836w32331; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 01:03:06 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: jason@dictos.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 01:03:05 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200310111254.23021.jason@dictos.com> In-Reply-To: <200310111254.23021.jason@dictos.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310120103.05789.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: Can't run a port right after an install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 08:03:11 -0000 On Saturday 11 October 2003 12:54 pm, jason dictos wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been noticing that whenever I install a port, I can't ever > run the executable right off the bat, instead I have to close a > consoel and re-open one in order to get the program to be in my (I am > guessing) search path. > > Why is that? Is there any way around that? > You need to "rehash" to have the system re-establish the files in your path. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html