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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Bruce Hunter <bhunter@solisix.com>
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Subject: Re: Application commands without having to restart
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On 2004-06-13 01:41, Bruce Hunter <bhunter@solisix.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I just installed a port. Usually, a application has a define command to
> start it and can be run from anywhere on the command line. When you
> first install an application. The command isn't available to the system
> until after a reboot.

Nah, not really.  You can always run it with its full pathname:

	tcsh> sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/foo.sh start

> How do I make the system aware? Refresh the commands list?
> Any reading material on this?

Are you using tcsh as your login shell?  If yes, just run:

	tcsh> rehash

This should 'refresh' tcsh's idea of what commands are available.

I don't remember about zsh, but I think it has a 'rehash' command too.

GNU bash should take care of this automagically.

- Giorgos