csh & tcsh history missing after reboot FBSD_8

Al Plant noc at hdk5.net
Thu Aug 20 02:23:44 UTC 2009


Warren Block wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Al Plant wrote:
> 
>> Aloha,
>>
>> 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"?
> 
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
> 
Aloha Warren,

No. I used shutdown -r now and shutdown -h now and they both blow it away.

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