Bash history weirdness

2009-10-03 Thread John
Hi, Bash's history command is behaving oddly. If I do "history -w" then it writes the current history to ~/.bash_history as expected. But if I do "history -a" then ~/.bash_history doesn't get changed, and from the modification time it hasn't been touched at all. Any ideas for what might be caus

Mailcheck and pseudo message in a mailbox

2009-10-03 Thread Yarda
With bash-4.0 the mailcheck behaviour is annoying when there is a pseudo message in a mailbox, e.g.: - #cat /var/mail/yarda >From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Sep 30 14:07:09 2009 Date: 30 Sep 2009 14:07:09 +0200 From: Mail System Internal Data Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA