Application commands without having to restart

[Jeremy Faulkner]

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Bruce Hunter wrote:
| Hello everyone,
|
| I just installed a port. Usually, a application has a define command to
| start it and can be run from anywhere on the command line. When you
| first install an application. The command isn't available to the system
| until after a reboot.
|
| How do I make the system aware? Refresh the commands list?
| Any reading material on this?
|
| Thanks for your help
| Bruce

The only time you need to reboot an *nix machine is to modify the
hardware or to change the currently running kernel.

In csh, type rehash to refresh the list of applications found in your PATH.

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Jeremy Faulkner				http://www.gldis.ca
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