X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: No History from earlier logins Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:17:31 +0100 Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <15446495.post@talk.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com * curator (Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:18:52 -0800 (PST)) > I got some problem with my cygwin installation. In my .bashrc file, > i export HISTFILE to a new file. When this is done, i have a history > on every login, but when i close the shell, all data is lost. So i > went to delete the command in the bashrc, which relocates the > history file. When this was done, i had no active history left > anymore, but when i touched "curser up", some commands i did not use > a long time ago appeard, but so actual ones. I found out, that the > "old command" were left in der bash_history file, which seems to be > the original file. Show us all the HIST variables you set and all the hist options... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/