> I am facing a problem on the console with bash. Bash simply does > not remember my commands in the right order. Most of the commands I > type in a login session are forgotten in the next session. Moving the > Up and Down arrow keys navigates a highly incorrect and incomplete > command history. Even doing a Ctrl-R for reverse search almost never > finds any command I entered in any previous session.
It may be that you're saving the contents of multiple sessions to the same history file, whose size is limited to 1000 entries. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/