>I installed 5.0 and 5.1-beta on three different system (all are Fedora Core >4), and each time when I use the command-line client, I can not use the >familiar up-arrow feature that normally lets you scroll through queries issued >during previous command-line sessions. My history is completely blank. > >the $HOME/.mysql_history file does exist, but all it's got in it is: > >_HiStOrY_V2_ > >in the first line. > >Please help! what am i doing wrong?
to my surprise, i just discovered that connecting to the server over remote IP, with a command-line client on the remote machine, the command-line history DOES get preserved. But, that, of course, is due to the separate functionality of server and client (as I am now clued in by this), so that .mysql_history is a client-only thing, and, in the case of remoteness, it's the client machine that writes to its own local .mysql_history file. So, why is my client failing to write to .mysql_history? This appears to be an "out-of-the-box", default setting, or am I wrong? Does it work for anyone out there? Please help! andrew -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
