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From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Can't run new programs until re-login??
Date: 12 May 94 20:01:05 GMT
Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines)
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hickman@prism.tamu.edu (Dan Hickman) writes:
>I am running FreeBSD 1.1 GAMMA. If I create a new executable file,
>either by compiling it or by creating a script, I cannot execute it
>until I re-login to my account. Is this normal? Is there any way
>to fix it?
There's nothing really broken. You are running csh or tcsh as your
shell which keep a list of executable files along your path. This
shortens the time taken to search for an executable along your path
as csh/tcsh only has to search the list, not each directory on your
path.
Yes it is normal. :-)
The command 'rehash' reloads csh/tcsh's list of executable files.
Cheers
Leigh
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