.bash_history in F15/16 randomly truncated/incomplete/damaged

[James Wilkinson]

Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
> And more - at several important machines when I want reboot
> them, I press for logging off and then login on for this only
> "shutdown -r now" command. And by then I at these machines not
> observed problems with bash history. Maybe it is speculation,
> but seem for me as systemd causation.

I have noticed that when I shut a computer down using the command line,
systemd will kill any open bash sessions before they get a chance to
save the history to ~/.bash_history.

If this seriously bothers you, you could investigate the history
command, and possibly put it into the PROMPT_COMMAND environment
variable so the history is written to disk each time the shell shows a
new prompt.

Hope this helps,

James.

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