From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 15:14:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93ABF16A415 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:14:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stanhalprin@yahoo.com) Received: from web58902.mail.re1.yahoo.com (web58902.mail.re1.yahoo.com [66.196.100.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3358313C478 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:14:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stanhalprin@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 4685 invoked by uid 60001); 4 Jan 2007 15:14:51 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=oatOX6FUDk083kFI/kHP/rXMA9tQFsgnwRg1Md7rbnSvvGMl1D4kbOUA6Thlrsbd/yux9lqqUw6sadInlUEcbJdI0PpMgzgkBxXywZHg7KvU00e61XWi/8GH0v9CJxmyXJZLn+xiNGMIQqGFjzPH5ncWTyt4Z42Welps6nLbeiQ= ; Message-ID: <20070104151451.4682.qmail@web58902.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.82.9.60] by web58902.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:14:51 PST Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 07:14:51 -0800 (PST) From: Stan Halprin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Clutz-Proof Logging X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:14:52 -0000 ----- Original Message ----=0AFrom: Bill Moran =0A=0A>Many shells keep a history as a matter of normal operation. You= might=0A>find that enough for you. Personally, I use bash, and the comman= d=0A>"history" brings the last 100 commands or so.=0A=0ANo, this isn't suff= icient. The problems are:=0A1) occasionally the sysadmin people at the serv= er farm do stuff=0A2) sometimes I edit files, and of course the shell doesn= 't record how=0A3) the shell history seems erratic! It remembers the sessio= n clearly, but if I reboot, for example, and look at the history, it's not = what I would=0A expect it to be.=0A=0ATIA,=0AStan=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A= =0A=0A__________________________________________________=0ADo You Yahoo!?= =0ATired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around =0Ahttp:= //mail.yahoo.com