Hi Ed, On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 04:27, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/27/2012 04:43 AM, suvayu ali wrote: >> Hi Frantisek, >> >> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 15:15, Frantisek Hanzlik <franta@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Now occurred to me that i can watch several (mainly roots) history files >>> by incrond and start some script which log some events on it. Maybe it >>> helps. >> I recalled your post and did a check before I rebooted my laptop today >> (after 7 days). I think you were correct and my claim that its a >> ridiculous idea was wrong. >> >> This is what I did: >> >> 1. I closed all running apps except for a terminal. >> 2. Executed these commands >> $ echo "1 test" >> $ echo "2 test" >> $ echo "3 test" >> $ sudo shutdown -P now >> 3. On turning on the laptop again, I could not find either of the three >> commands with history | grep -E "echo.+test" >> >> In addition to $HISTFILE, I log all my history to a separate file. That >> file _did_ have all the test and the shutdown commands. So we can >> conclude bash was doing the right thing and systemctl is to blame. >> >> At the moment I am very busy, so I would urge you to file a bug report. >> If you post the bug id back to the list, I'll try to add more comments >> if I find anything with regards to this. >> > > FWIW, I did the same test on a VM running F16. After restarting, this was the last > thing in my .bash_history file.... > > echo "4 Test" ; sudo shutdown -P now > > So, it isn't clear to me that it is a consistent problem. Maybe a race condition? > Actually now that you mention, I think that might be possible. When I did the test I forgot I also run guake (a quake like drop down terminal). So the history from my test could easily have been overwritten by that. When I have the time I will try to repeat the test in a cleaner environment (creating a new user and all that ...). -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
