Fedora 8: tcsh .history file destroyed on exit?
James Frye
fryeja at us.ibm.com
Sat Feb 23 18:00:37 UTC 2008
> James Frye <fryeja at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > I've just installed Fedora 8 on a new machine (Lenovo T61p), and am
having
> > problems getting
> > tcsh to run correctly. The main problem is that when I exit,
the .history
> > file is destroyed. It's
> > not that the current session history is not saved. I copied
a .history
> > file from my older machine
> > loaded it, and the history mechanism works as expected for that
session.
> > On restart, though,
> > I find that the .history file has been truncated to 0 bytes.
>
> Thank God, I'm not the only one on this planet with that problem.
> I'm using the version of "tcsh" that comes with Fedora 8 (manually
> installed with "yum" because someone decided that "tcsh" shouldn't
> be part of the default installation any longer).
I installed the "yum" version, and still have the same problems. My userid
doesn't
save history (though your trick works around it), root doesn't even execute
its
.login or .cshrc - but does seem to execute commands that are
in .bashrc :-(
> After some research with Google, I lost all hope because nobody
> seems to use tcsh, fvwm2 and xterm nowadays. I'm a dying dinosaur.
There is a fairly active fvwm forum, and ongoing development: fvwm.lair.be
I can't really relate to the "dinosaur" comment. I think it's a different
attitude. To me the computer is a tool with which I do certain things,
not an end in itself, so I don't need/want decoration.
James
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