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Command not found 19 March 1999

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This article deals with what to do when you get the above error message but you can see the command and you know it works

Background

I had just finished Installing the lynx port from the Internet and was trying to run lynx. But I encountered the following problems:

kennett# lynx
lynx: Command not found.
kennett# which lynx
lynx: Command not found.

But lynx was at /usr/local/bin and had the correct file permission:

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  823640 Mar 15 21:39 lynx

The fix

I was able to run it by issuing the following command:

kennett# /usr/local/bin/lynx

I initially thought that /usr/local/bin was not in my path. But it was as evidenced by the following:

kennett# echo $PATH   
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin

I was running as root, so I issused the following command:

source ~root/.login

After that, I was able to run lynx by just typing lynx

Postscript

I've since been told that doing a rehash would solve the above problem. See man csh for details.

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