-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > On Jan 27, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Denny White wrote: > >I've read the ksh man page, googled for days, & can't seem to come > >up with the answer. Either I put no mention of HISTFILE and HISTSIZE > >in $HOME/.profile and I don't have a lasting history file of previous > >commands. Or, I put it in and I do have a history file, but the > >HISTSIZE setting has no effect. It doesn't change and the file grows > >and grows. Currently I have it set as shown below to save my command > >line history: > > > >HISTFILE=.ksh_history > >HISTSIZE="50" > > > >I've tried using .ksh_history$$ to have a different file each login, > >and know I can run a cronjob nightly to clean them up if I want to, > >but I can't figure out how to make the history turn over just like > >it's supposed to with the HISTSIZE value without all that other mess. > >Thanks for any help I can get on this. > > > >-- > > > >Denny White > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:26:20PM -0800, Steve Mayer sez: > Have you tried it without the quotes? > > HISTSIZE=50 > > Steve
Yeah, dumbass me, I just answered the same question in another reply. Should've looked at the rest of the messages. ;) Anyway, yeah, I had tried it both ways & it still didn't work. Like I said before, why all of a sudden it started working, I don't know. But it now it works. Each time I made changes, I tried various ways of getting it to take effect. I did '. ./.profile' to get the system to reread it, exited & logged back in, etc. Strange problem but now it's resolved. Thanks for the help, Steve. -- Denny White All messages scanned by ClamAssassin http://jameslick.com/clamassassin/ =============================================================== GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A =============================================================== iD8DBQFHnr+4y0Ty5RZE55oRAmM3AKDRVZQx0wLMBbpXVPRIi3oqaDdouACgjtIN sUKw7wiPZednI/fZvRCT1bw= =nwNv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
