Have you tried it without the quotes? HISTSIZE=50
Steve On Jan 27, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Denny White wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've read the ksh man page, googled for days, & can't seem to come up with the answer. Either I put no mention of HISTFILE and HISTSIZE in $HOME/.profile and I don't have a lasting history file of previous commands. Or, I put it in and I do have a history file, but the HISTSIZE setting has no effect. It doesn't change and the file grows and grows. Currently I have it set as shown below to save my command line history: HISTFILE=.ksh_history HISTSIZE="50" I've tried using .ksh_history$$ to have a different file each login, and know I can run a cronjob nightly to clean them up if I want to, but I can't figure out how to make the history turn over just like it's supposed to with the HISTSIZE value without all that other mess. Thanks for any help I can get on this. -- Denny White All messages scanned by ClamAssassin http://jameslick.com/clamassassin/ =============================================================== GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A =============================================================== iD8DBQFHnQ+ey0Ty5RZE55oRAm+IAJ4mFSIXHqORlxAmbuIu4VTOd7Z35QCgpwDP X6R0e88UGv5D/5VGHG4rX6I= =hMAH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----