Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 11:29:25 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is root's search path special? Message-ID: <029301c16f52$bf8e9b00$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <200111170949.fAH9nic21507@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
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Thanks. Such a requirement would not have occurred to me spontaneously. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: <y3k@gti.net>; <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 10:48 Subject: Re: Is root's search path special? > Hi Anthony! > > On 17 Nov 01 at 9:32 you wrote: > > > > What does "rehash" do? The man page is no help. > > >From 'man tcsh': > > rehash : > > Causes 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 path while you are logged > in. This should be necessary only if you add commands to one of > your own directories, or if a systems programmer changes the > contents of one of the system directories. Also flushes the > cache of home directories built by tilde expansion. > -- > Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ > * Coffee -- n., a person who is coughed upon. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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