From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 14 4:48:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mrs-3.smartworld.net (mrs-3.smartworld.net [216.70.64.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E809937BA8C for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 04:48:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dnormandin@freewwweb.com) Received: from odie (cust66.tnt1.dial.cal1.uunet.ca [209.167.219.66]) by mrs-3.smartworld.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id HAA52732; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 07:48:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000201bfd5f6$d42db6a0$42dba7d1@odie> From: "Duke Normandin" To: "Alfred Perlstein" Cc: "Freebsd Questions" Subject: Re: Installed a port now I can't get it to run Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 22:00:04 -0600 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 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, June 13, 2000 10:28 AM Alfred Perlstein wrote: >* Duke Normandin [000613 07:55] wrote: >> On Tuesday, June 13, 2000 5:59 AM Brett Taylor wrote: >> >> >> I just installed the port for gimp, took probably half-an-hour or more >> >> to compile. Now when I enter gimp on the command line I get 'gimp not >> >> found'. >> > >> >If you're running a csh-based shell, you'll need to rehash. >> >> >> Totally newbie question: >> What does "rehash"(ing) mean/do? Is it analogous to "refreshing" a >> directory in Windoze? Tia.... > >Some shells will cache the PATH variable that tells them where all >the executables are, they won't rescan the PATH for new executeables >until after 'rehash' is used. Other shells scan the entire PATH each >time. Thanks bud...... I suspected it was something of the kind, but since I wasn't sure, I thought I'd ask. -duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message