Re: Odd history clobbering.

2008-08-22 Thread Andreas Schwab
"Matthew A. R. Sherian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have seen, upon occasion, that my ridiculously long HISTSIZE (10) Do you have set HISTFILESIZE too? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fi

Odd history clobbering.

2008-08-22 Thread Matthew A. R. Sherian
I have seen, upon occasion, that my ridiculously long HISTSIZE (10) will be truncated if two bash instances are closed at the same time. Always to 1000 lines. In order to work around this behavior I have a rather icky .bash_logout that uses fuser and gzip to archive the entire history t