Well, the shell builds a hash table of where to find executables.  It does
this when you change directories.  But, you created a link _after_ the
hash table was built, so the entry for that executable wasn;t in the 
table.

You could have just changed directories then changed back, or you could
always force the shell to rebuld the hash table with the `rehash' command.



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.
> 

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