On 10/1/07, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Eric Fowler wrote:
> > Everything is fine now but I am still unaccountably picking up the old
> > version from /usr/bin.
>
> Is your shell hashing and saving the old location?
>
>   $ type autoconf
>   autoconf is hashed (/usr/bin/autoconf)
>
>   $ hash -r
>   $ type autoconf
>   autoconf is /usr/local/bin/autoconf
>
> If you are using bash then try 'help hash' to get more information.
>
> You might want to explore using the 'shopt -o checkhash'
> configuration.
>
> Bob



That was it.

Damned peculiar this Linux.
But I am liking it ...

Thanks to all of you. I learned something new tonight.

Eric
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