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.
>