Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:42:52 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Patrick Calkins" <pcalkins@oemsupport.com>, "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Path environment var Message-ID: <005701c0c9f3$9ddfce20$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <9B9CB6555E6BA049BC2B857E7711C24F0239AD@puke.reno.oemsupport.com>
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> I have been wrestling with this for months - I install a new program, it > copies its exec's into /bin /sbin /usr/local/bin, etc all just fine. But I > can't run them without explicitly calling them /usr/local/bin/whatever even > though those are in the path. Do I need to re-fresh the path, so it sees > them again?? I am using the default shell on FreeBSD 4.2 If you're using csh (which I think is the default shell), you need to issue a 'rehash' command to rebuild csh's cache of files available in the PATH. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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