Subject: Re: Whats the deal?
To: wb2oyc <WB2OYC@BELLATLANTIC.NET>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/18/1997 21:01:23
	Some shells 'cache' files in $path for performance reasons, try
	typeing 'rehash' after installing a program (or just exit & start
	a new shell).


                                David/abs

    -=#  Enough is enough... its starting to take too long to heal   #=-


On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, wb2oyc wrote:

>     Huh?  Whats happening here?
>     Installed some packages.  Create a link in /usr/bin to the executable.
> 
>     Try it; command not found!
>     Hmmm?  Oh well, scratchin' my noggin' we'll just try somethin' else 
> here.
> 
>     Another one.....sameo sameo....What gives?  Go to the dir where it 
> lives,
>     ./blah_blah, it runs fine!  Hmmmm?
> 
>     Later, after having gone back to MacOS, and then rebooting to NetBSD
>     it works!  Not just it, but they all work! (Pine, pico, lynx, etc)....
> 
>     What didn't I do?  Anyone?  Worse than that, why did rebooting fix it?
> ?
> Paul
>   Oh, I did this as root.  Yeah, I know....don't, but I haven't found 
> adduser
>   yet, or gotten it off one of my Linux boxes.
>