From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 23:30:15 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 23:30:13 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h012.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CAD037B402 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:30:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 28209 invoked from network); 21 Dec 2000 23:30:08 -0800 Received: from dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com (HELO zoso) (216.227.91.85) by smtp.telocity.com (209.228.33.219) with SMTP; 21 Dec 2000 23:30:08 -0800 X-Sent: 22 Dec 2000 07:30:08 GMT From: "Otter" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: search order? Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 02:35:21 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Let's say we find a binary of an app located in /bin. After thinking back, also realizing that the same binary was installed manually and is located in /usr/local/bin. Which one takes priority? I would assume the /bin, but not sure. Is that determined by the order listed in my PATH setting or set by default as something else? -Otter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message