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Date:      Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:49:33 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Al Plant <noc@hdk5.net>
Cc:        Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: csh & tcsh history missing after reboot FBSD_8
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908192044040.67785@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A8CB3AF.3070702@hdk5.net>
References:  <4A8CA912.3080201@hdk5.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908191941500.67503@wonkity.com> <4A8CB3AF.3070702@hdk5.net>

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On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Al Plant wrote:
> Warren Block wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Al Plant wrote:
>>> 
>>> Terminal history gone.
>>> 
>>> I cannot get any recent version of FreeBSD 8.* to keep the csh or tcsh 
>>> history across a "reboot" in root or usr. It stays after "exit" and a new 
>>> login however.
>> 
>> Does the history stick around if you do "shutdown -r now" instead of 
>> "reboot"?
>
> No. I used shutdown -r now and shutdown -h now and they both blow it away.

My thinking was that reboot is more abrupt than shutdown, and killed the 
shell without giving it a chance to write out the history.

But I've never noticed the history in a csh being written out before a 
reboot of either type.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA



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