nixCraft

Hi all,
I am a bit confused. Some of the Engineers in my org and I need to login to a remote site to keep log and diagnose any problems. We use ssh to do this.

What I have observed is that if someone logs in and loses the connection in between( i.e before he logs out), we have a hung session. And if we kill the process upon login again, the command history of that hung session is lost.

I am not sure, but I think that when we kill the hung session, it doesn't write back to the .bash_history. Is there a way that we can save the command history of this hung session?. Or am I wrong altogether. Does it save the command history even when we kill the hung session.

I hope you all have understood what I am saying. .

ricc

Put script command in ~/.bash_profile it will write session to file called typescript. Read man page of script for more information.

By default history isn't written to the file called .bash_history until you logout. To force the write use following command:
Setup a cron job for history -w that will write out history every 1 minute or according to your setup.

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