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From: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: no command history with ksh as root?
Keywords: ksh history root
Message-ID: <25D17CC4.45C8@marob.masa.com>
Date: 8 Feb 90 14:05:54 GMT
References: <497@siswat.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Organization: ESCC,  New York City
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In article <497@siswat.UUCP> buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck) writes:
>On two different systems, ksh history editing just beeps at me in vi
>mode instead of rolling back to the last command.  Things work fine
>if I am a normal user.  There is a .sh_history file that contains the
>history in both cases.

For some reason (security, I guess), ksh wants HISTFILE and HISTSIZE
to be defined in the root .profile.  Try:

HISTFILE=$HOME/.H/.sh_history
HISTSIZE=250
export HISTFILE HISTSIZE

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Dave Hammond
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