Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:30:36 -1000 From: Al Plant <noc@hdk5.net> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: .cshrc History missing Message-ID: <4A7F5C1C.6000600@hdk5.net> In-Reply-To: <20090810011857.abc6eecd.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4A7F57D9.20405@hdk5.net> <20090810011857.abc6eecd.freebsd@edvax.de>
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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
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