Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 15:06:25 -0400 From: mfv <mfv@bway.net> 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>
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> 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 >_______________________________________________ >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
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