[geeks] and another silly netbsd question

[Ryn]

Are you using a CSH derivateive? Type "rehash".

Ryan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Big Endian" <bigendian at mac.com>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: [geeks] and another silly netbsd question


> >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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