>
> I've read the ksh man page, googled for days, & can't seem to come
> up with the answer. Either I put no mention of HISTFILE and HISTSIZE
> in $HOME/.profile and I don't have a lasting history file of previous
> commands. Or, I put it in and I do have a history file, but the
> HISTSIZE setting has no effect. It doesn't change and the file grows
> and grows. Currently I have it set as shown below to save my command
> line history:
>
> HISTFILE=.ksh_history
> HISTSIZE="50"
>
> I've tried using .ksh_history$$ to have a different file each login,
> and know I can run a cronjob nightly to clean them up if I want to,
> but I can't figure out how to make the history turn over just like
> it's supposed to with the HISTSIZE value without all that other mess.
> Thanks for any help I can get on this.
>
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>
> Denny White
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