topic Re: no .sh_history file in Operating System - Linux

no .sh_history file

joseph wholey — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:27:27 GMT

I'm running RHEL AS3. My users are set up to use /bin/ksh. However, there is no .sh_history being created for any of them of the users. Nothing is setup in either the /etc/profile or the respective /home//.profile which is creating the file somewhere else. If I issue "history" as a user, it will display command history for current session. My question is: "WHY ISN'T A .sh_history FILE CREATED"????? Shouldn't that happen by default? Please respond if you can address the PROBLEM. No work around recommendations please!!!! thx.

Re: no .sh_history file

Jeff_Traigle — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:30:53 GMT

For ksh, HISTFILE should be defined. If it's not, no history file is used. See ksh man page. Put the following in /etc/profile:

HISTFILE=${HOME}/.sh_history

Re: no .sh_history file

Robert-Jan Goossens — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:32:42 GMT

Hi,

Your korn shell uses a deafult buffer for the last commands. If you would like to setup a history file, you will need to add this to your .profile or /etc/profile.

EDITOR=vi
HISTFILE=${HOME}/.sh_history_`who am i|awk '{ print $1}'`
HISTSIZE=1000
export EDITOR HISTFILE HISTSIZE

Best regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: no .sh_history file

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:39:09 GMT

Shalom joseph,

This is a Linux system.

It does not use the .sh_history file.

Take a look at $HOME/.bash_history

You will see what you would expect in .sh_history

You CAN have .sh_history if you want, but most Linux admins (like me) will if they touch the system look for a .bash_history file.

SEP

Re: no .sh_history file

Pete Randall — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:44:26 GMT

Similar discussion from last week:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1003728

Pete

Re: no .sh_history file

joseph wholey — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:20:38 GMT

Sorry... I'm using /bin/ksh as my default shell. I was under the impression (actually I believe I read it somewhere) that by default .sh_history will be created. On all of my AIX machines, I do not define .sh_history in my .profile or in /etc/profile, however, it does get created. Please advise. thx.