Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 09:32:29 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: <y3k@gti.net>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is root's search path special? Message-ID: <021301c16f42$6991c4d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <XFMail.20011115184815.y3k@gti.net>
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Mark writes: > After installing a program, if you're running tcsh, > you have to run 'rehash' to search your path for > executables. Or you can log out and back in or something. That appeared to fix it. When I logged in again this morning after a mysterious system crash occurred last night, I was able to run the program with no problem. I had assumed that the path is searched for every command execution, but apparently that is not the case. What does "rehash" do? The man page is no help. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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