From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Mar 29 17:51:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.198.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F5A37B9BE for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:51:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mlduke@concentric.net) Received: from mcfeely.concentric.net (mcfeely.concentric.net [207.155.198.83]) by darius.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/12/15 5.12)) id UAA26544; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:51:19 -0500 (EST) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from ts002d46.mer-id.concentric.net (ts002d46.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.106]) by mcfeely.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id UAA05339; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:51:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:48:45 -0700 (MST) From: mlduke To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Information Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Information I wish I'd known about 2 years ago. Say we've just installed a port, xboard for example, we feel like getting trashed in a chess game. Successful install, no errors, but in response to: >xboard we get: Command not found. So do: >/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb & And go do something else until it's done. Then do: locate xboard And we get more data than we want to look at, ports and such. We can do: locate xboard | more And hunt through all the data but: locate xboard | grep bin Shows easily that the xboard binary is in: /usr/local/bin So we do: /usr/local/bin/xboard And the game is on. Just thought there might be others who would find this to be of interest. ML Duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message