windows behaviour on installing new packages
Kris Maglione
bsdaemon at comcast.net
Fri Feb 2 05:57:34 UTC 2007
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:07:58AM +0530, Gobbledegeek wrote:
>I noticed over the past few weeks, that after installing numerous
>packages (pkg_add -r), I could not execute them (not found). They
>were standard packages installed in the standard locations like
>/usr/local/bin or sbin (already in $PATH). Running ldconfig, logging
>out and logging back in did not help either. *Rebooting* helps
>however.
The problem is that csh does not recheck your $PATH, but only hashes it
once. You can get it to rehash by running the aptly named `rehash`
command, or starting a new shell. ldconfig has nothing to do with
locating executables.
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