Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 01:45:42 -0800 From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To: charon@freethought.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: commands to execute programs Message-ID: <4.1.19990320013540.00a59e80@mail-r> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990319152508.00980d60@mail>
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At 03:25 PM 3/19/99 , charon@freethought.org wrote: >Is there any way to find out what the command for a program (installed from >the ports) will be without guessing? Look in /var/db/pkg/<port-name>/+CONTENTS for a list of files the port installed. >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? Yes, it all has to do with what directories are in your path environment variable. ~/bin is usually in your path too, so you can, for example, put a symlink to rc5des in there. --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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