From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13439 invoked from network); 15 May 2000 06:11:53 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 15 May 2000 06:11:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 21073 invoked by alias); 15 May 2000 06:11:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 3062 Received: (qmail 21066 invoked from network); 15 May 2000 06:11:39 -0000 Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 12:49:26 -0700 From: Steve Reid To: Eric Smith Cc: zsh users Subject: Re: confused by history Message-ID: <20000513124926.A416@grok.localnet> References: <20000512205850.A8610@fruitcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <20000512205850.A8610@fruitcom.com>; from Eric Smith on Fri, May 12, 2000 at 08:58:50PM +0200 On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 08:58:50PM +0200, Eric Smith wrote: > Problem is that I cannot seem to grow my history file - as you can see by > the grep -i from my zshrc I am quite ambitous. I often toggle setting > and go wc -l $HISTFILE but get no more that 500 or up to 1000 if lucky - > what could be keeping the file small? I've found that when I boot my computer in the morning and start my X session with a few xterms, occasionally all of my zsh'es have an empty history. I'm don't know what's causing it but presumably it has something to do with the zsh'es all getting killed at shutdown. Maybe this is the problem you're seeing. I also get files with names like ".history.1234" congregating in my home directory. They are all either empty or just contain two bytes: "\0\n". Kind of annoying. ZSH_VERSION=3.1.6-dev-19 OSTYPE=freebsd3.2 History stuff from my rc file: HISTSIZE=800 SAVEHIST=500 HISTFILE=~/.history setopt HIST_EXPIRE_DUPS_FIRST setopt HIST_IGNORE_DUPS setopt HIST_IGNORE_SPACE setopt HIST_NO_STORE setopt HIST_SAVE_NO_DUPS setopt HIST_REDUCE_BLANKS setopt SHARE_HISTORY