@DeadGuy "You're dead," he said. Keli waited. She couldn't think of any suitable reply. "I'm not" lacked a certain style, while "Is it serious?" seemed somehow too frivolous. -- Princess Keli in trouble (Terry Pratchett, Mort)

That supreme court lady has taken a lot of media time for her retirement, the only thing i recognized her from was some guy on fb that made a page called "the same photo of [name not remembered] every day until she dies"

I have added a new user and it shows up in the /etc/passwd file, but when I attempt to login with that username and password the screen turns black momentarily, then returns me\ to the blank login screen like nothing was done

@AdamL What distribution, and what command did you use to add it?

@AdamL I take it by "supreme court lady" you mean Ginsberg? And by retirement you mean death?

She was actually fairly important. Not just for people in North America.

@AdamL I'be had similar behaviour when my home wasn't owned by my user. Check X logs.

Yeah all politicians and lawyers are precious I'm with you 100 percent on that buddy I added the user using adduser i think but again I'm have the same trouble I had with Ubuntu that drivers me insane, my history file is incomplete almost as if the system chooses which commands it wants to remember and ones that it doesn't

@AndrasDeak what do you mean by X logs this might be exactly what i am looking for I mean in 28 days if maple approve my license for the linux install i just bought im going to replace this win10 with Debian so i don't have the choice of going lazy again

@AdamL probably askubuntu.com/questions/26525/…

Or maybe some other paths on that thread. I'm on mobile right now.

pro-tip: don't open two 300 MB binary files with vimdiff

Unless your name is Ole Tange and you have a terabyte of RAM

I'm not envious at all

@JeffSchaller That's only half a tera of RAM.

peanuts!

@AndrasDeak thanks so which log file is the shell command history?

@AdamL that seems unrelated to the chat message you linked to, but -- your shell history may or may not be set, and depends on which shell you're using.

(caveat emptor, I apparently can't do math today)

no but it gave me the path /var/log/ to take a look at, so given the contents are various subcategories of logs i just thought command history being a type of log will be there somewhere, and might help me get to the bottom of why the output of history is always in complete, like it has stored the commands entered in some terminal windows but not others, and I remember obviously because I generally have half a dozen open each for a new package im learning hiow to use

I think it was actually Andres link though anyway relating more to his problems that are similar

@AdamL you are probably setting HISTSIZE and/or HISTFILESIZE in various places read by different types of shell, which results in truncation. See:

Try running grep -H HIST ~/.bashrc ~/.profile ~/.bash_profile ~/bash.login ~/.bash_aliases /etc/bash.bashrc /etc/profile /etc/profile.d/* /etc/environment

That will probably show multiple places where you're setting the history control variables.

But to really be able to help you, you should post a question on the main site, telling us what shell you use, what kind of machine it is, whether you log in graphically or also via ssh and the output of the command above.

wow thanks a ton for that when the issue first arose it was when i was only in ubuntu community i think and could get it sorted. but at least i got to see in /var/log/ that i appear to be winning a popularity contest of some sort which definitely due to my number theory love that has won me so many likes in the past, i dont know if i need to insert sarcasm there in brackets

when i enter locate ~/.history it doesnt show up. instead there is this pretty cool calendar with historical notes.

1964 the surgeon general condemns cigarettes and I'm still having to source nicotine concentrate illegally in Australia. It's been over 3 months now though. I used to spend $35 per day on cigarettes, this thing costs me roughly $2, and my lung health has just been insanely better. anyway the share files in Debian succeeded in distracting me again

but my history file has to be somewhere so clearly ive fd here ill read the man agian

well ive made a douche of myself this week i wish i got tazared every time i trusted inductive reasoning honestly you heuristically investigate something and it's all looking very elegant until someone throws a counter example in the comments on SE lol i think im going to be sorry

@AdamL well she was no Matthew McConaughey

@AndrasDeak ?

@FaheemMitha ref. chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/26?m=55565810#55565810

@AndrasDeak Hmm. That actually raises more questions than it answers.

Like what's with Adam and Matthew.

Yes :)

Random observation: The plots of Les Miserables and Great Expectations have similarities.

@AdamL What do you mean? Why would you use locate when you already know the location of the file? ~/.history is a full path, that expands to /home/yourUserName/.history. Just do ls -l ~/.history and you will see it.

Oookay, those last comments are kind of disturbing and not very appropriate.

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This is just too funny. And it has only 5+ million views. For shame.