#

# set up history variables and load in shell history

#

##############################################################################

esetenv LOGBASE $HOME/var/log

# we log these values in prompt_command(), should be sufficient

# one-time on shell init (don't see them changing)

#

esetenv TTY_TYPE ${TERMINAL/\//} # for `pts/X' strip off the `/'

esetenv TTY_TYPE ${TERMINAL:0:3} # `pts' or `tty'

esetenv TTY_NUM ${TERMINAL:3} # the raw number of the tty

esetenv TTY_NUM ${TTY_NUM#/} # strip leading `/' if exists (for pts)

esetenv LOGFILE_BASH $LOGBASE/history.$HOSTNAME

esetenv LOGFILE_CMDS $LOGBASE/cmdhist.$HOSTNAME

# this needs to be set before history -r is done, it describes

# the time format it was written in for the shell history parser

#

esetenv HISTTIMEFORMAT '%Y%m%d%H%M%S '

# these aren't used anymore because we bypass the shell's own

# logging system (everything is logged via $PROMPT_COMMAND)

# but we still need to set the size to unlimited (empty string)

# and this value is also inherited by HISTFILESIZE (but we want

# to export it, so we do it explicitly here); in both cases

# empty string means unlimited (docs say use negative values,

# but empty string works on older shells)

#

esetenv HISTSIZE ""

esetenv HISTFILESIZE "$HISTSIZE"

#esetenv HISTCONTROL "ignorespace"

esetenv HISTCONTROL ""

esetenv HISTIGNORE "f:f *:" \

"m:m *:" \

"fg:fg *:" \

"gf:gf *:" \

"fm:mf:" \

"j:" \

"hist*:" \

"rml:rml2:" \

"1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8:9:10:" \

"11:12:13:14:15:16:17:18:19:20:" \

"21:22:23:24:25:26:27:28:29:30"

# these are still used by the shell to determine where to append

# (-o histappend) or to overwrite (+o histappend) when it exits;

# it then dumps the history contents here. We are doing it

# ourselves right now in $PROMPT_COMMAND so we turn it off

# completely

#

#export HISTFILE=~/.bash_history

#export HISTFILE=/dev/null

unset HISTFILE

shell_init_history ()

{

local savedfmt="$HISTTIMEFORMAT"

HISTTIMEFORMAT=%s

history -cr $LOGFILE_BASH

HISTTIMEFORMAT="$savedfmt"

}