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As the title says Xterm does not seem to save all previous executed commands. Usually in terminal you can press the up arrow and scroll through previous command to save typing it all again. Xterm seems vert hit and miss saving some and missing quite alot. Anyone else have this or have found a work around?
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2009-12-14
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I think this is down to the use of ash as the default shell. One option is to install bash, and configure user to use it. It works for me. Its in one of the extras(-foo) repos somewhere, all usual caveats apply.
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2009-12-14
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Thanks I will give it a bash..... No pun intended lol
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2009-12-14
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Originally Posted by casper27
Chances are your history is set to a small number and its only saving the last 10 commands or so - you can tweak that in your profile.
As the title says Xterm does not seem to save all previous executed commands. Usually in terminal you can press the up arrow and scroll through previous command to save typing it all again. Xterm seems vert hit and miss saving some and missing quite alot. Anyone else have this or have found a work around?
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2009-12-14
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It's possible that your .ash_history has the incorrect permissions/ownership. This should only occur if the first time you open xterm you sudo gainroot - since no .ash_history exists, when you exit root's shell it is created with only root having permission to write (preventing non-root command history from being written to the file).
Use 'ls -l /home/user/.ash_history' to verify. If the file is owned by root (3rd column), that is your problem.
sudo gainroot
chown user.users /home/user/.ash_history
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sudo gainroot
chmod a+w /home/user/.ash_history
Either will fix the permissions to allow non-root command history to be retained.
Last edited by rewt; 2009-12-14 at 18:44.
Use 'ls -l /home/user/.ash_history' to verify. If the file is owned by root (3rd column), that is your problem.
sudo gainroot
chown user.users /home/user/.ash_history
OR
sudo gainroot
chmod a+w /home/user/.ash_history
Either will fix the permissions to allow non-root command history to be retained.
Last edited by rewt; 2009-12-14 at 18:44.
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2009-12-14
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Originally Posted by rewt
Sweet worked great cheers.
It's possible that your .ash_history has the incorrect permissions/ownership. This will probably only occur if the first time you open xterm you sudo gainroot - since no .ash_history exists, when you exit root's shell it is created owner=root, group=root preventing non-root command history from being written to the file.
Use 'ls -l /home/user/.ash_history' to verify. If the file is owned by root (3rd column), that is your problem.
sudo gainroot
chown user.users /home/user/.ash_history
OR
sudo gainroot
chmod a+w /home/user/.ash_history
Either will fix the permissions to allow non-root command history to be retained.
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2009-12-14
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Two notes about this:
First, I found that ~/.ash_history, the file where ash normally saves history information, had root as the owner and group; this prevented saving history. Check and see if you have the same problem, and if so, remove ~/.ash_history. See bug 5896 for one reason that might happen.
Second, note that history does *not* get saved if you click the X in the upper-right corner of the xterm. Instead, type "exit", or press ctrl-d. See bug 5317 for that.
Last edited by josh; 2009-12-14 at 18:47.
First, I found that ~/.ash_history, the file where ash normally saves history information, had root as the owner and group; this prevented saving history. Check and see if you have the same problem, and if so, remove ~/.ash_history. See bug 5896 for one reason that might happen.
Second, note that history does *not* get saved if you click the X in the upper-right corner of the xterm. Instead, type "exit", or press ctrl-d. See bug 5317 for that.
Last edited by josh; 2009-12-14 at 18:47.
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2009-12-14
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Originally Posted by qole
Yes. Working fine for me at the mo. Only for user, root still uses ash.
By the way, anyone tried bash for the N900 yet?
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"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not."
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Beware of extras-devel.
Class .. : Lame hacker & beardy boffin
Humour . : [#######---] Alignment: Apathetic anarchist
Patience : [####------] Weapon(s): My cat, my code.
Agro ... : |#---------] Relic(s) : N900, MacBookPro, NSLU2, N800, SheevaPlug, Eee-901, Core2-Quad, PS3
"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not."
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Beware of extras-devel.
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2009-12-14
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Originally Posted by qole
Note also the easier workaround buried at the end of bug 5317 comment 7:
Now I know it is because I usually use the "X" icon to close my terminals. I will use "exit" from now on.
Code:
echo "trap exit SIGHUP SIGINT SIGTERM" >> /home/user/.profile
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2009-12-14
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Originally Posted by lma
Yeah, I can confirm that just
Note also the easier workaround buried at the end of bug 5317 comment 7:
(though I think catching just SIGHUP should be enough for the osso-xterm case).Code:echo "trap exit SIGHUP SIGINT SIGTERM" >> /home/user/.profile
Code:
echo 'trap exit SIGHUP' >> .profile