Bug 815810 - [RFE] history of bash is lost running multiple instances in parallel
Summary: [RFE] history of bash is lost running multiple instances in parallel
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: setup
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-04-24 14:50 UTC by Account closed by user
Modified: 2012-07-13 11:01 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-07-13 11:01:27 UTC
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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.
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