From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 9:26:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72DBF37BF0B for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:26:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e5DGQUH17425; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:26:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:26:30 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Duke Normandin Cc: Brett Taylor , Freebsd Questions Subject: Re: Installed a port now I can't get it to run Message-ID: <20000613092630.I18462@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <007401bfd547$975b4a80$a1dba7d1@odie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <007401bfd547$975b4a80$a1dba7d1@odie>; from dnormandin@freewwweb.com on Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 06:38:41AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Duke Normandin [000613 07:55] wrote: > On Tuesday, June 13, 2000 5:59 AM Brett Taylor wrote: > > >> I just installed the port for gimp, took probably half-an-hour or more > >> to compile. Now when I enter gimp on the command line I get 'gimp not > >> found'. > > > >If you're running a csh-based shell, you'll need to rehash. > > > Totally newbie question: > What does "rehash"(ing) mean/do? Is it analogous to "refreshing" a > directory in Windoze? Tia.... Some shells will cache the PATH variable that tells them where all the executables are, they won't rescan the PATH for new executeables until after 'rehash' is used. Other shells scan the entire PATH each time. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message