From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 5 07:27:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C496837B401 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 07:27:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6517B43F93 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 07:27:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walterk1@earthlink.net) Received: from user-0cal9lv.cable.mindspring.com ([24.170.166.191] helo=earthlink.net) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 191pa8-00021p-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2003 07:27:48 -0800 Message-ID: <3E8EF5F3.2040405@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 10:27:47 -0500 From: Walter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: paths - a newbie question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 15:27:52 -0000 After installing a port using "pkg_add -r ," the only way I know to be able to type at the command prompt to have it execute is either to reboot, or to make an alias for it by hand. Surely there's a better way. Is there a way to make the OS make a link auto-majically? Thanks. Walter