basic question -linux path..(/usr/bin, /usr/local/bin)
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Mar 29 15:43:27 UTC 2005
bruce wrote:
> ok..
Still top-posting...
> [root at lserver2 /]# type mysql
> mysql is hashed (/usr/local/bin/mysql)
> [root at lserver2 /]# file /usr/bin/mysql
> /usr/bin/mysql: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
> for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
> [root at lserver2 /]# rpm -q mysql
> mysql-3.23.58-9.1
>
> does this shed any light??
Try:
# hash -l
# hash -r
# hash -l
Then see what happens.
Your shell appears to have "found" a /usr/local/bin/mysql at some point
though it no longer exists, and is still trying to use it. "hash -r"
should make it forget these "remembered" locations.
> i'd suggest simply copying the files in the '/usr/bin/my*' to the
> '/usr/local/bin/my*' except that that would mean i still have files in two
> different dirs, and it doesn't solve why this is going on...
Indeed it doesn't.
Paul.
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