From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 9 23:30:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A827B1065670 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 2009 23:30:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from guam10.hdk5.net (guam10.hdk5.net [66.180.132.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5818FC20 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 2009 23:30:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mohawk7.intra.net (unknown [66.180.149.18]) by guam10.hdk5.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6C31CC1E; Sun, 9 Aug 2009 13:30:35 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <4A7F5C1C.6000600@hdk5.net> Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:30:36 -1000 From: Al Plant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 FreeBSD/i386 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon References: <4A7F57D9.20405@hdk5.net> <20090810011857.abc6eecd.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090810011857.abc6eecd.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: .cshrc History missing 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: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:30:37 -0000 Polytropon wrote: > Allthough I'm not familiar with the particular problem you > described, I observed that the history sometimes (!) does > not survive a reboot. It may have to do with a situation > where more than one shell is running. Idea: The last shell > closed (even forced) saves its history, so the history of > the other shells gets lost. > > I've set those globally in /etc/csh.cshrc: > > set history = 100 > set savehist = 100 > > Sometimes, history survives, sometimes it doesn't. Very > strange... > > > Aloha Poly, I'm glad to have somebody confirm this. I thought it was funny that this was happening. I have earlier CURRENT 8 running on a couple of machines and they never acted this way. This is root that is doing this on my test box. set history = 100 set savehistory = 100 are in the .cshrc file. I'll look in /etc/csh.cshrc Thanks... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + < email: noc@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol