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Subject: Re: Root history not saving over reboot 8*
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Al Plant wrote:
> Several of us on the questions list have not been able to find out if 
> the problem of history not being saved in the root or usr command 
> lines has been corrected.
> I have tried 8* on both i386 and amd64 and it doesnt save across a 
> reboot on either box. FreeBSD 7.2 does as do the earlier current 
> versions before approximately June of 8*
I guess you use 'reboot' to reboot. As this forces a reboot immediately 
(and closes all terminals), the shell has no chance to terminate 
'normally' (i.e., by exit/ctrl-d/logout/etc) - therefore history is not 
saved.

Check if the command history is saved if you do "shutdown -r now" and 
hit ctrl-d immediately. I'd assume it does.

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Kamigishi Rei
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