On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Robert Mark Bram wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> I can login ok, but I have no history file:
> Robert Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> $ history
> 1 history
>
> Robert Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> $
>
> For the term of each session, a history is built, but with each new login I
> lose my history. Can anyone suggest what might be the cause of this?
I assume you're using bash. What are the values of $HISTFILE and
$HISTFILESIZE? Since you do seem to have history until you quit the
session, I won't ask about $HISTIGNORE or "set -o | grep history".
Igor
P.S. I'll let someone else speak up about the pitfalls of spaces in
usernames.
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