Bug 815810

Summary:	[RFE] history of bash is lost running multiple instances in parallel
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Account closed by user <c719711>
Component:	setup	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	ovasik, pknirsch, rrakus
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Description Account closed by user 2012-04-24 14:50:38 UTC

add "shopt -s histappend" to /etc/bashrc to avoid it.

histappend:
If set, the history list is appended to the file named by the value of  the HISTFILE  variable  when  the  shell exits, rather than overwriting the file.

Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2012-04-24 22:04:11 UTC

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm just thinking why it was not added there earlier. Only thing I can think about is the potential privacy reason - and for root user potentially maybe even security reasons. Maybe it would be better to add it into /etc/skel/.bashrc - so it will get active for common users, but will be not used for the root.

Comment 2 Ondrej Vasik 2012-04-24 22:05:25 UTC

Adding bash maintainer to CC, Roman, what do you think about this RFC?

Comment 3 Roman Rakus 2012-04-25 13:34:28 UTC

I have nothing against it. I'm not sure about any privacy nor security reasons.

Comment 4 Account closed by user 2012-06-13 11:18:57 UTC

also "history -a" is needed in bashrc.

Comment 5 Ondrej Vasik 2012-07-13 11:01:27 UTC

Done in setup-2.8.56-1.fc18, closing RAWHIDE.