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

[Reindl Harald]

Am 28.03.2012 15:48, schrieb suvayu ali:
>> FWIW, I did the same test on a VM running F16.  After restarting, this was the last
>> thing in my .bash_history file....
>>
>> echo "4 Test" ; sudo shutdown -P now
>>
>> So, it isn't clear to me that it is a consistent problem.  Maybe a race condition?
>>
> 
> Actually now that you mention, I think that might be possible. When I
> did the test I forgot I also run guake (a quake like drop down
> terminal). So the history from my test could easily have been
> overwritten by that. When I have the time I will try to repeat the
> test in a cleaner environment (creating a new user and all that ...)

usually bash writes down .bash_history on close
try it out with "cat ~/.bash_history" and you will
not see the entries of your current session!

so if you have more than one bash-instance open
all of them writing down their history and the
last one wins




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