well my histsize is 1000, and the file .bash_history exists and has some stuff in....

so that kind of looks ok...

as I say it seems intermitant.... is there a way of traceing my keystrokes and see what they do ?

for emple I type

$> ls
I get ls
i type

$ ls -l
i get ls -l

then I up arrow I get 'ls'

then i do
$>history

and I see
..
1137 more /etc/issue
1138 history
1139 ls
1140 history

BUT as you can see its over the 1000 HISTSIZE ... should this be allowed ??