bad path in bash

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

Walton Hoops wrote:
> That would certainly work, but I'd rather figure out why the problem is
> occurring :-)
> 

Did you really use Ubuntu's source. I could imagine your make install 
file is intended for a different distribution.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Carl
> Friis-Hansen
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 12:55 PM
> To: Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions
> Subject: Re:
> 
> Walton Hoops wrote:
>> OK wise Ubuntu'ers.
>>
>> So I've built MySQL from source as the version in the repository does 
>> not support partitioning.  Got it installed, running, all is well and 
>> good.. Until.
>>
>> root at grunt:/usr/local# mysql
>>
>> bash: /usr/bin/mysql: No such file or directory
>>
>> root at grunt:/usr/local# which mysql
>>
>> /usr/local/bin/mysql
>>
>> root at grunt:/usr/local# ls -l /usr/local/bin/mysql
>>
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 340157 2009-03-23 11:48 /usr/local/bin/mysql
>>
>> root at grunt:/usr/local# /usr/local/bin/mysql --password
>>
>> Enter password:
>>
>>  
>>
>> Any idea why bash is trying to exec /usr/bin/mysql (which does not 
>> exist), when which says it should be /usr/local/bin/mysql (which does 
>> and works)?
> 
> That is where is normally is, so what about a link to where you have yours?
> 


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