From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 19 15:25:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D2814EC5 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:25:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from charon@freethought.org) Received: from c40948-a ([24.1.7.99]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.00.03 201-229-104) with SMTP id <19990319232518.IMGS22357.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c40948-a> for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:25:18 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990319152508.00980d60@mail> X-Sender: tuathadedanann@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:25:08 -0800 To: questions@freebsd.org From: charon@freethought.org Subject: commands to execute programs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there any way to find out what the command for a program (installed from the ports) will be without guessing? For example, I installed Netscape and then typed the command 'netscape' and it executed (a 'which netscape' told me where the file was). However, I installed x-files and can't figure out the command ('which x-files' and 'which xfiles' fail. A 'which files' finds something, but I don't know what program it is - it doesn't identify itself when executed, and I also installed filerunner and can't find that - 'which filerunner' comes up empty.). Also, why do some programs (like rc5des) have to be run with a full pathname and others can be run with just the program name? Is it that the latter type are in /usr/local/bin? Thanks, __________________________________________ Charon@freethought.org http://members.home.net/tuathadedanann/ "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." -Albert Einstein __________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message