[geeks] and another silly netbsd question

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Fri Feb 15 23:14:02 CST 2002


On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 12:12:05AM -0500, Big Endian wrote:
> >Boy, for the most part NetBSD seems just like home, but other times...
> >
> >OK, I'm having an odd problem, see the transcript below my sig.
> >I do a printenv, and notice the PATH line, /usr/local/bin is clearly in my
> >path.  The I type python, but it says command not found, even though it is
> >in /usr/local/bin.  But, if I do /usr/local/bin/python, it works fine.  
> >What
> >gives here?  Surely I'm missing something.
> >
> >However, other programs in /usr/local/bin run just fine without me having
> >to type the full path.
> 
> Is it recently installed?  logout and log back in.

That fixed it.  Why does that do anything?  The PATH has never been changed
by me.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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