From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 20 16:47:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from puke.reno.oemsupport.com (64-42-17-172.atgi.net [64.42.17.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3307037B423 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:47:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pcalkins@oemsupport.com) Received: by puke.reno.oemsupport.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:47:32 -0700 Message-ID: <9B9CB6555E6BA049BC2B857E7711C24F0239AE@puke.reno.oemsupport.com> From: Patrick Calkins To: 'Matthew Emmerton' , "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" Subject: RE: Path environment var Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:47:21 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 Ok, 'rehash' does sound VERY familiar! I do thank you very much for easing this troubling pain!! :o) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message