From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 49 invoked by alias); 13 Jul 2011 14:55:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 16129 Received: (qmail 4967 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2011 14:55:07 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at closedmail.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) From: Bart Schaefer Message-id: <110713075444.ZM13017@torch.brasslantern.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:54:44 -0700 In-reply-to: <20110713150103.2f5c6226@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> Comments: In reply to Peter Stephenson "Re: locking failed for /home/whoever/.zhistory: no such file or directory" (Jul 13, 3:01pm) References: <201107101653.p6AGrute004254@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> <20110713150103.2f5c6226@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> X-Mailer: OpenZMail Classic (0.9.2 24April2005) To: Subject: Re: locking failed for /home/whoever/.zhistory: no such file or directory MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Jul 13, 3:01pm, Peter Stephenson wrote: } Subject: Re: locking failed for /home/whoever/.zhistory: no such file or d } } > But my .zhistory is always empty. Isn't there a workaround for it? } > With zsh 4.3.10 I didn't have that problem. } } You did have the problem, but the shell didn't warn you it wasn't going } to be able to manage history safely. } } Is there a good reason you need to have the .zhistory file even though } it's empty? I think he means zsh is never writing anything to the file, not that it is intentionally always empty.