[geeks] and another silly netbsd question

[Big Endian]

>On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 12:12:05AM -0500, Big Endian wrote:
>>  >Boy, for the most part NetBSD seems just like home, but other times...
>>  >
>>  >OK, I'm having an odd problem, see the transcript below my sig.
>>  >I do a printenv, and notice the PATH line, /usr/local/bin is clearly in my
>>  >path.  The I type python, but it says command not found, even though it is
>>  >in /usr/local/bin.  But, if I do /usr/local/bin/python, it works fine. 
>>  >What
>>  >gives here?  Surely I'm missing something.
>>  >
>>  >However, other programs in /usr/local/bin run just fine without me having
>>  >to type the full path.
>>
>>  Is it recently installed?  logout and log back in.
>
>That fixed it.  Why does that do anything?  The PATH has never been changed
>by me.

This seems to be a BSDism, but when I install something, it doesn't 
register in the shells searches.  I think the shell keeps a static 
list of all the things in its $PATH.  might be a csh/tcshism.

daniell
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