basic question -linux path..(/usr/bin, /usr/local/bin)

[Paul Howarth]

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.