[geeks] and another silly netbsd question

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Feb 15 23:33:24 CST 2002


On February 16, Big Endian wrote:
> >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.

  If he's using csh, the correct thing to do is type "rehash".

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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