Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 19:26:04 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Command not found. Message-ID: <20001109192604.P11449@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10011092208320.2751-100000@choplifter.gpcc.itd.umich.edu>; from timcm@umich.edu on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 10:15:14PM -0500 References: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10011092208320.2751-100000@choplifter.gpcc.itd.umich.edu>
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* Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> [001109 19:15] wrote: > > Hi, if anybody could answer this i would appreciate it. When I install > something from the ports, I can verify that the executeable is in > /usr/local/bin and that /usr/local/bin is in my path. But I still get > Command not found error. > I happened to remember that rehash fixed that and it did, but the > manpage for rehash wasn't helpful (it sent me to builtin). I'm using csh. > Why do i have to run rehash to allow the command to be found even though > it is in the correct place? Thanks, csh caches all the executables in your path, rehash tells it to rescan those directories. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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