Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:36:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Huppi <th@huppi.com> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (probably) dumb question about ports collection Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910041225320.3486-100000@sis.huppih.com> In-Reply-To: <19991004144639.T63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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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
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