no .sh_history file

[joseph wholey]

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.

[Jeff_Traigle]

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

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Pete Randall]

Similar discussion from last week:

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


Pete

[joseph wholey]

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.