On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 12:23 -0600, Jason Aeschilman wrote: > Bash history is not saved on shutdown. I have commented out the line > "unset HISTFILE" from /etc/profile so now history is saved for root, but > it only works when I log out of a terminal. If I reboot or shutdown, > the history does not get saved to ~/.bash_history. Does anyone know how > this can be fixed? Shouldn't this be standard on the LFS system? Even > if you keep "unset HISTFILE" for root, regular users should not lose > their bash history on shutdown. > > Jason
I believe this is standard. If the terminal session is not logged out of, history for that session is not saved. What I do if I reboot/shutdown from a virtual terminal: reboot ; exit I have lost history enough times, so I'm careful to logout of any session I want to save. -- S. Anthony Sequeira ++ It's hard to be humble when you're perfect. ++ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
