On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:07:10PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:57 PM +0200, Ian Balchin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My commands are no longer recorded in .bash_history > > > > HISTFILE. HISTFILESIZE, & HISTSIZE are all set. > > > > What have i done? This is apparent in my user login, commands as > > root are still recorded. > > > > Thanks for any tips. > > Log out. The commands aren't saved until you exit your shell. > > To test, you can also do: > $ bash # start a new shell with bash > $ some commands > $ exit # > $ cat ~/.bash_history # should show "some commands" >
Thanks Karsten, I thought # poweroff shut all down properly but it obviously does not run a logout. I will remember to logout of any user terminals first. -- Ian Balchin http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables This machine is running Debian GNU/Linux ... http://www.debian.org
