OpenVZ Forum: Support » No bash history in VE

Home » General » Support » No bash history in VE

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

No bash history in VE [message #8784]

Wed, 06 December 2006 09:43

ataraxis
Messages: 19
Registered: August 2006

Junior Member

Hi,

When I enter a machine with vzctl enter <NAME>, not all environment variables are set.
I have read that OpenVZ devs see vzctl enter as last ressort to enter a machine, but I would still like to use it as a normal way.

For example:
HISTFILE=/dev/null

after a su - :
HISTFILE=/root/.bash_history

What does su - do?
Disadvantage of su is, that I have to type exit twice.

Any ideas?

Ataraxis

Report message to a moderator

Re: No bash history in VE [message #8786 is a reply to message #8784]

Wed, 06 December 2006 10:00

dim
Messages: 344
Registered: August 2005

Senior Member

Use ssh instead? Rolling Eyes

http://static.openvz.org/openvz_userbar_en.gif

Report message to a moderator

Re: No bash history in VE [message #8790 is a reply to message #8784]

Wed, 06 December 2006 10:27

Vasily Tarasov
Messages: 1345
Registered: January 2006

Senior Member

The problem is that vzctl set HISTFILE variable to /dev/null (why?), so I use the following trick to get history work in VE after vzctl enter:

I add the line

HISTFILE=~/.bash_history

to file /root/.bashrc

HTH,
Vasily.

Report message to a moderator

Previous Topic:	ERROR: Core::SplitDevPath: Cannot get device for
Next Topic:	SOLVED nmap: Failed to find interface venet0 mentioned in /proc/net/route

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Thu Jan 22 03:44:15 GMT 2026

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.40171 seconds