On 16 February 2015 at 01:34, Alexander Ploumistos < alex.ploumis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I have upgraded 3 systems to a nonproduct F21 and I have installed F21 > to a couple of others using the x86_64 Live Workstation image. They > all suffer from intermittent losses of bash history. When the machines > are booted or rebooted, more than half the times, there are commands > missing from .bash_history files. It's not only that the previous > sessions have not been appended to the files, entire portions of the > files are wiped on occasion, e.g. history files that were more than > 2000 lines long are now reduced to just a couple of commands. > > There was a bug filed against systemd during F21 testing (#1170765), > where I followed up, but I have no idea if systemd really is to blame > or if there is something else that could be touching history files. I > have read the release notes as well as the system administrator's > guide, but couldn't find anything relevant. Does anyone have any idea > what might be off here? Which system components are involved in > terminal history management? > > Could you see if either of these are set? #export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups #export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%h %d %H:%M:%S> " I started seeing this in RHEL-6 bash after I took this from one of my fedora boxes to get a common bashrc I commented them out and the problem with bash losing history every now and then went away. I figured that one of the control items was not ready for primetime and forgot to follow up furhter. -- Stephen J Smoogen.
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