James Frye <fryeja@xxxxxxxxxx> 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). > If it helps, I run xterm under the fvwm2 window manage, and am using a > system setup that was > copied from the Fedora 7 install on my previous machine, and which have > worked with various > Fedora versions going back to 3 (IIRC), as well as other distros. I'm using fvwm2 and xterm, too. ;-) My .tcshrc contains the usual stuff: set history=500 set savehist=(500 merge) Saving and reloading history (by default, ~/.history) worked fine in Fedora 7 and all previous releases. But in Fedora 8, "xterm -e ...", "fvwm2" and "tcsh" do not work well together. If I run "xterm -e ssh localhost" and use fvwm2's window close button, tcsh's history is lost. It's also lost if I quit my fvwm2 session (which implicitly closes all windows). After some research with Google, I lost all hope because nobody seems to use tcsh, fvwm2 and xterm nowadays. I'm a dying dinosaur. For the last days on earth, I use the following workaround: In "~/.logout", I save the history to a backup file: if ( $?tcsh != 0 ) then history -S ~/.history_backup endif In "~/.login", I load (merge) the history from the backup file in case the default history file is empty: if ( $?tcsh != 0 ) then if ( -z ~/.history ) history -M ~/.history_backup endif There seems to be a very rare race condition where even that doesn't work, but I couldn't reproduce this yet. Hope that helps ... Andreas
