Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:06:05 -0400 From: mfv <mfv@bway.net> To: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> Cc: jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console command history Message-ID: <20161021170605.3e76cf91@gecko4> In-Reply-To: <580A74E6.5030303@gmail.com> References: <580A4A2F.4020902@gmail.com> <580A4BA7.6090700@gmail.com> <580A4CCA.8080301@gmail.com> <20161021150625.35f0eea3@gecko4> <580A6DE9.50604@gmail.com> <580A74E6.5030303@gmail.com>
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> On Fri, 2016-10-21 at 16:04 Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> wrote: > >jd1008 wrote: >> >> >> On 10/21/2016 01:06 PM, mfv via freebsd-questions wrote: >>>> On Fri, 2016-10-21 at 13:13 Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> 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 >>>> >>> 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 >>> >> +1 >> Well, since I like to keep much longer history, I set it to >> something rather large - like 999999 :) >> > > >Those 2 statements are in /root/.cshrc as part of the system install. > >_______________________________________________ >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 Ernie, As my setup is only a single user host I placed both of these commands in /etc/csh.cshrc and then disabled .cshrc in both /root and ~/. Thus, there is only one configuration file for both root and my home directory. Have used this setup for many years without incident. I am using r10.3 amd64. Cheers ... Marek
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