site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 On 16-May-2010, at 00:21, John B Brown wrote: Dear Folk, After doing a wipe -r on /usr/local and recompiling the GNU findutils package to install under /usr, the command 'locate --version' returns a peculiar failure; (1): % locate --version -bash: /usr/local/bin/locate: No such file or directory But of course, it's correct, but 'whereis' reveals; (5): % whereis locate /usr/bin/locate the error’s from bash itself. it caches paths of executables you’ve run recently. do a “hash locate” to force it to forget the old path. M. jbb@pinball3:~/gnu/build/findutils-4.4.2 (28): % hash locate jbb@pinball3:~/gnu/build/findutils-4.4.2 (29): % locate --version -bash: /usr/local/bin/locate: No such file or directory jbb@pinball3:~/gnu/build/findutils-4.4.2 (30): % hash /usr/bin/locate jbb@pinball3:~/gnu/build/findutils-4.4.2 (31): % locate --version -bash: /usr/local/bin/locate: No such file or directory Apparently that is not the source of the error. Shalom, John B. Brown. [jbb@vcn.com] 358 High Street, Buffalo, Wyoming 82834 "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes" Mahatma Gandhi "If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied." Rudyard Kipling "A man who does not know the truth is just an idiot but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a crook." Bertolt Brecht "I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... On 5/15/10 5:23 PM, Mo McRoberts wrote: My PATH has no /usr/local anything in it now; I edited all that stuff out. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com