Re: history not working in bash 3.0 on solaris 2.9

[Chet Ramey]

alan@peak.org wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: sparc
> OS: solaris2.9
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='sparc' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='solaris2.9' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='sparc-sun-solaris2.9' 
> -DCONF_VENDOR='sun' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -DNDEBUG -I.  -I. -I./include 
> -I./lib -I/usr/local/include -g -O2
> uname output: SunOS peakmail.intranet.peak.org 5.9 Generic_112233-11 sun4u 
> sparc SUNW,Ultra-2
> Machine Type: sparc-sun-solaris2.9
>
> Bash Version: 2.05
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>         GNU bash, version 3.00.0(1)-release (sparc-sun-solaris2.9)
>         (bashbug picked up the installed version, not the one I just built, and
>         from which I just ran bashbug)
>         For some reason, bash is not recording history in this build.  The 
> history
>         number stays stuck at 1 and I can't do any history editing.  It works 
> just
>         fine in the freebsd port, so I don't think it's a generic bash 
> problem...

Start looking at your environment.  Look at what `set -o' says about
history, and look at the values of the various HIST* shell variables.
(HISTSIZE, HISTIGNORE, etc.).

Chet