nothin is getting saved in .history file

[itsnammu]

even though

history and savehist are set to 100
then also nothin is gettin saved in .history file

 

[KenCunningham]

How are your trying to view .sh_history? It's not a regular file and does like being catted. Or do you mean you can't recall commands - in which case do you have set -o vi in your .profile? Is this ksh? Post back with more info.

 

[MikeLacey]

What is the value of the variable $HISTFILE ?

Mine is set to /.sh_history

Mike

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but to really foul things up -
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[itsnammu]

HISTFILE is undefined ...
what should i set it to. .

and i am not a root user so i dont have access to /.sh_history file

and i want to c my .history file but its empty

my question is y nothin is gettin saved in that file
thier r no issues regarding viewing the file, file size is '0'

 

[itsnammu]

i am using tcsh shell

 

[KenCunningham]

Sorry, don't know the tsch shell, but a man on it should give you details of it's history capabilities. Have you tried Mike's suggestion, possibly export $HISTFILE=/.history in the .tcshrc (or whatever file is used on starting a shell). There is man information here:

http://rootr.net/man/man/tcsh/1

if you do not have man available on your system. HTH.

 

[itsnammu]

when i write 'tcsh'
on the prompt
everything works perfectly fine .....
whats happening m not gettin ...please help ...
thanks in advance

 

[KenCunningham]

When you first log in, what does echo $SHELL contain? What is the shell entry for the user in /etc/passwd?

 

[itsnammu]

echo $SHELL
-> /bin/tcsh

and entry in the passwd file is correct its ... /bin/tcsh

 

[MikeLacey]

itsnammu,

Set the variable HISTFILE to the name of a file you can write to, something like ~/.history should be ok. (In your home directory in other words.)

Mike

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[itsnammu]

i did that also ...but still nothin is gettin saved in that file ....wondering y

 

[MikeLacey]

Ok I was barking up completely the wrong tree there.

This is like the C shell isn't it - not the Korn shell...

Your first post describes setting the variable correctly.

When are you checking the contents of the ~/.history file? It's supposed to only get written when you log out.

Mike

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but to really foul things up -
you require a man Mike.

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[itsnammu]

i think thts not correct because i can see the history from other accounts ..
n wht u r talking is... when we want to save the commands even after we close the shell thn savehist no. of commands get saved in the .history file ....