command history recall

[Chris Conrad]

Thanks Harry, with that suggestion, I was able to figure out the following:
EDITOR=/usr/dt/bin/dtpad.
But, EDITOR-vi is in my $HOME/.profile. So it doesn't appear that my .profile is being run, or else EDITOR is getting overwritten somewhere. Got any other suggestions?

[Chris Conrad]

Follow-up. So I guess everyone was right, technically. As soon as I typed EDITOR=vi on the command line, it worked. But if I log out and log back in, it won't work anymore.

[Danny Pogi]

you need to include those parameters that you change in your root's .profile file or in any other users profile.

here's how:

1. login as root

2. edit your .profile

# vi .profile

3. then add:

EDITOR=vi;export EDITOR
HISTFILE=/.sh_history
HISTSIZE=500
export HISTFILE HISTSIZE

4. save the file and exit

5. to test:

# /.profile

even when you logged out you should still have this profile as it is being hard coded in the root's profile.

that's it!

regards,
danny