Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 18:53:56 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> Cc: Freebsd Questions <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: console command history Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK2W5chboZSgGt3%2BrEkjhtaRpMd_1_=ymi=R81U3omtQWw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <580A4A2F.4020902@gmail.com> References: <580A4A2F.4020902@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> 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. > This has been the default behavior for quite awhile. If you logout, the history will be saved. Whatever entails "shutdown -r now" doesn't gracefully logout the shell. Doing something like "# exit && shutdown -r now" would be a workaround. -- Adam
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