csh History

aladdin · #1 (**permalink**) 01-23-2008

Hello everybody,

Im being unsuccessful to enable command history logging in csh shells on a Sun machine running Solaris 9, I know csh doesnt log commands history by itself,
here under is my /.cshrc file:

Code:

# @(#)cshrc.standard    1.1 Copyright 1994, Motorola Inc.

if ( -e /.datagen_system ) then

        source /usr/gsm/DataGen/current/config/local/cshrc.datagen

        if ( -f $HOME/.dg_profile ) then

                source $HOME/.dg_profile

        endif

else

source /usr/omc/current/env/.cshrc

endif

alias omc_env 'source /usr/omc/config/global/pmInfxUserConfig.csh'

alias mib_env 'source /usr/omc/config/global/mibInfxUserConfig.csh'

alias omclog tail -f /usr/omc/logs/omcaudit`date +%Y%m%d`

alias usrlog    tail -f /usr/omc/logs/usrauditlogs/usraudit`date +%Y%m%d`

alias h history

alias glu /usr/omc/ne_data/GLU

set filec

set histfile=/.history

set history=200

I also dded the following lines to my /etc/profile:

Code:

set histfile=/.history

set history=200

Thanks in advance
Aladdin

aladdin · #2 (**permalink**) 01-24-2008

is there any daemon I should run???

drl · #3 (**permalink**) 01-24-2008

Hi.

The /etc/profile is for Bourne-family shells, sh, bash, etc. If you placed those set commands in that file, you would effectively set the first argument to "history=200".

The shells are conceptually simple, they read in lines of text, usually interpret the first token as a command, run it, and wait for the next command to run. I am not aware of any connection to a daemon that would be necessary for the shells to run.

I have a very simple .cshrc file on Solaris 10:

Code:

#ident  "@(#)local.cshrc        1.2     00/05/01 SMI"
umask 022
set path=(/bin /usr/bin /usr/ucb /etc .)
if ( $?prompt ) then
        set history=32
endif

and the history mechanism works for me.

First things first: how do you know that you are running csh? ... cheers, drl

aladdin · #4 (**permalink**) 01-24-2008

Thanks for your reply drl,

I tried also commenting the two lines in /etc/profile but still same result.
as for knowing the shell, emmm. actually Im using "ps" command, and "echo $$", is that right???
but it is still not running, I will post any solution might work.

Regards
Aladdin

drl · #5 (**permalink**) 01-24-2008

Hi.

Here is how I quickly check to see what shell I am using:

Code:

vm-solaris% ps | grep $$
   666 pts/2       0:00 csh

If you were actually using bash, it would look like this:

Code:

vm-solaris drl ~ $ ps | grep $$
   585 pts/2       0:00 bash

We need to refine the question a bit. Are you getting any output what you enter:

Code:

history

or are you concerned about the lack of a command history across a login -- that is, when you login again, there is no history? If that is true then you probably need something like:

Code:

set savehist=10

in .cshrc ... cheers, drl

aladdin · #6 (**permalink**) 01-24-2008

Hi drl,
and thanks again for your help.

the output for "ps" was csh:

Code:

cl1# ps | grep $$
  7344 pts/1       0:00 csh
cl1# history
cl1# set savehist=10
cl1# history
cl1# ./.cshrc
/usr/omc/current/env/.cshrc: No such file or directory
cl1# history
cl1#

as you can see the history command returned nothing, even though I set the savehist var, and added it to .cshrc and reinitialize the file.

Many Thanks
Aladdin

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