From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Oct 21 19:06:37 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F156C1B565 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 19:06:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mfv@bway.net) Received: from smtp1.bway.net (smtp1.v6.bway.net [IPv6:2607:d300:1::27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 29D19D1F for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 19:06:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mfv@bway.net) Received: from gecko4 (host-216-220-115-164.dsl.bway.net [216.220.115.164]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: m1316v@bway.net) by smtp1.bway.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 798069587E for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 15:06:25 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=bway.net; s=mail; t=1477076785; bh=BNal9i5Fh9BmQ7tekMEvWXUqw7njBxz0KQ3u8SEQeSw=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Reply-To; b=LwBhjgHMahjvhm4d//tfYDa2D5685wuI6rM46ZEwN0c8ZdaeHhEGAbftEfWBu4Q6c 9wuBA3YRFAh6aR0GUHDMlcU37bEkOw0yT31ucrBsybFusyT2aM+++mxtvUMaY80jAx C8yiTRkB0prfPA7N070b4af+nFzCSjTwKyBC/QIs= Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 15:06:25 -0400 From: mfv To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console command history Message-ID: <20161021150625.35f0eea3@gecko4> In-Reply-To: <580A4CCA.8080301@gmail.com> References: <580A4A2F.4020902@gmail.com> <580A4BA7.6090700@gmail.com> <580A4CCA.8080301@gmail.com> Reply-To: mfv@bway.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 19:06:37 -0000 > On Fri, 2016-10-21 at 13:13 Ernie Luzar wrote: > >jd1008 wrote: >> What is your root's login shell? >> >> On 10/21/2016 11:02 AM, Ernie Luzar wrote: >>> Hello List; >>> >>> After installing from scratch using cdrom.iso the console command >>> history is blank for user root. As I issue commands from the root >>> command line these commands get added to the history as one would >>> expect. After rebooting the system, root's history contains the >>> commands I issued before I rebooted the system, and any newly >>> issued commands are added to the history as one would expect. >>> >>> Now here is the problem I am seeing. After any reboots the history >>> contains only the issued commands from the first boot after the >>> install from scratch. The history does not contain the commands >>> issued before the last reboot. >>> >>> How can I configure the console command history for user root to be >>> a rolling list of issued console commands that contain the history >>> of the issued commands between 2 reboots, so after a reboot the >>> history contains commands that were issued prior to the last reboot? >>> >>> Running 11.0 with sc console driver because vt does not have >>> copy-paste ability. This problem is also in 7.x 8.x 9.x and 10.x >>> series and now I need a resolution for this annoying tick. >>> > >I use the system default csh >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hello, Checkout the section "History substitution" in csh(1). It is possible to save and/or delete the history using various settings. I found the following to be useful setting in the csh configuration file: set history = 1000 set savehist = (1000 merge) Cheers ... Marek