history file

[babeo]

Hello,
1) When I use fuser, I get bunch of pid listed (I believe so), but it is attached with an 'o' at the end, eg 12883o, what the 'o' means? 'obsolete' ? because when I try with ps -ef 12883o, I don't have any ps listing, but if I use it without 'o', then I have a process with id '12883' listed.

2) I have 2 machines, one I can list the history file more than 100 lines (history -100), the other, I can not. Where do I set up the history file to keep track of more line (.profile)?, and is this the file '.bash_history' that contain the records or it depends on the shell, 'cause I see the sh_history?

Thanks

 

[bfitzmai]

My recomendation is to look at "man bash". You are right in the history file is the file .bash_history. Looking at the man page, there are some options you need to use to enable history.

What is the options you are using with the command fuser?

 

[huebs]

1) The "o" is some kind of flag, I remember it's described in the man page (can't look at it now, I'm @ home). One way to get rid of it (for further processing of the output) is to redirect stderr to /dev/null: [tt]fuser <your_options_here> 2>/dev/null[/tt]

 

[huebs]

and here is the "o":

[tt]man fuser:

"
...
o Indicates that the process is using the file as an open file.
...
"
[/tt]

 

[babeo]

Thanks all,
I should look at the man page before asking.! Thanks again.