> James Frye wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 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. > > > > > > This has been the default behavior for tcsh for many years. I can't > even remember what year that changed ... > > Check your .tcshrc -- your savehist may not be correct: here is mine: > > set history=999 > set savehist=900 merge I know, that's why I have savehist &c set, just as your example (except different numbers). This isn't a new setup: it's just migrating what does work on my current systems, and has (with ongoing modifications) since long before my first Linux system. > It may not be a good idea to set root's shell to tcsh, since many > processes executed as root may depend on bash syntax. It's always worked before, and if it doesn't, that's a bug in whatever shell script isn't working. > Having installed from source, the tcsh binary may have the wrong > permissions: > > -> ls -l /bin/tcsh > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 351528 2007-08-31 03:39 /bin/tcsh* > > Or may have been built with less than optimal 'configure' arguments. Permissions are ok. It does work, and will load/save history if I do it manually, just not automatically on exit. Root also works fine if I do a "source .tcshrc" after logging in. James
