Re: LFS does not save bash history on shutdown

2006-06-19 Thread Jason Aeschilman
Matthias B. wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:23:03 -0600 Jason Aeschilman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ash 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

Re: LFS does not save bash history on shutdown

2006-06-17 Thread Matthias B.
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:23:03 -0600 Jason Aeschilman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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,

Re: LFS does not save bash history on shutdown

2006-06-17 Thread Tapio Kelloniemi
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 01:51:01PM -0600, Jason Aeschilman wrote: Again, I'm just curious how they make this work. I understand your point of view, that you should lose history since you don't explicitly exit the terminal session, but at least some distros have changed it so history is

Re: LFS does not save bash history on shutdown

2006-06-15 Thread Jason Aeschilman
S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: 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

Re: LFS does not save bash history on shutdown

2006-06-15 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 12:24 -0600, Jason Aeschilman wrote: I have lost history enough times, so I'm careful to logout of any session I want to save. Well, this came up because our (very old) Caldera-based system didn't have this problem. I just now tested this on Fedora and it doesn't

LFS does not save bash history on shutdown

2006-06-13 Thread Jason Aeschilman
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

Re: LFS does not save bash history on shutdown

2006-06-13 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
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