S. Anthony Sequeira wrote:
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 12:24 -0600, Jason Aeschilman wrote:
I have lost history enough times, so I'm careful to logout of any
session I want to save.
Well, this came up because our (very old) Caldera-based system didn't
have this problem. I just now tested this on Fedora and it doesn't
have
this problem either. I'm curious what is different on LFS. I
wonder
if their reboot command is compiled differently. I suppose one
solution
would be to create an alias for reboot (alias reboot='reboot; exit')
but
it seems silly to have to do that.
As far as I am aware this is not specific to LFS. I believe Debian bash
and cygwin bash exhibits this same behaviour, if the term session is not
gracefully shutdown history is lost.
Next time I have to reboot one of my Debian servers I will check this
out.
I don't have access to a pure Debian machine but I had my co-worker test
this on his Ubuntu machine and it also saves bash history on reboot.
Again, I'm just curious how they make this work. I understand your
point of view, that you should lose history since you don't explicitly
exit the terminal session, but at least some distros have changed it so
history is saved on reboot/shutdown, which is the behavior I desire.
Let me know what you find out with Debian.
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