From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 3 09:12:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA27421 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:12:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nsco.network.com (nsco.network.com [129.191.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA27359 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:12:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeh@anubis.network.com) Received: from anubis.network.com by nsco.network.com (4.1/1.34) id AA25484; Tue, 3 Feb 98 11:11:13 CST Received: from osiris.network.com by anubis.network.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11080; Tue, 3 Feb 98 11:11:12 CST Received: by osiris.network.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA18097; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 11:11:09 -0600 From: jeh@anubis.network.com (Jeff Henning) Message-Id: <199802031711.LAA18097@osiris.network.com> Subject: Re: can not run executables To: rvh@execpc.com (Rick Verhaalen) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 11:11:09 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199802031603.KAA08080@mailgw01.execpc.com> from "Rick Verhaalen" at Feb 3, 98 10:00:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" Either specify the full path when you run the command or re-source (e.g. source ~/.cshrc for csh/tcsh) your login file. It probably has something to do with caching of the filesystems but I don't know the exact details. I just know I need to reset my path every time I install a new program for it to be found even though the program may already be in your search path. > > I recently installed Mesa-2.5 on my FreeBSD v2.2.5 system. When I try to > run some of the executables, I get "command not found". When I do a ls -l > on the directories, it will list the program as executable. I am doing > this while logged in as root. I've encountered this problem before with > files that were installed post-FreeBSD installation. > Does it have anything to do with my umask? (which is 022) > > Also, when I had v2.2.1, I had a nice utility called tkdesk. I can not > find this with v2.2.5. Where is it? > thanks, > rv >