From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 12:24:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from compass.OregonVOS.net (compass.oregonvos.net [159.121.170.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47E2E15554 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:23:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from th@huppi.com) Received: from sis.huppih.com (ppp5-ast.orednet.org [159.121.170.196]) by compass.OregonVOS.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA22483; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (th@localhost) by sis.huppih.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05315; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:36:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from th@huppi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: sis.huppih.com: th owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:36:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Huppi X-Sender: th@sis.huppih.com Reply-To: Tom Huppi To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (probably) dumb question about ports collection In-Reply-To: <19991004144639.T63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > On [19991004 09:45], Tom Huppi (th@huppi.com) wrote: > > >There is also a "rehash" command which is, supposedly effective > >with csh. I have yet to correlate running it with solving any of > >the particular problems that I have come up against. > > rehash: > > rehash Cause the internal hash table of the contents of the directories > in the path variable to be recomputed. This is needed if new commands > are added to directories in the path while you are logged in. This > should only be necessary if you add commands to one of your own > directories, or if a systems programmer changes the contents of a system > directory. > > HTH, It does, though I had read that somewhere previously. Actually what is helping (me) more is that I am begining to understand the mechanism by which new processes come into existance, and how they gain the information they use to execute. I use the term "begining" lightly :) Thanks -Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message