Hello,

When using the command line every terminal has its own history. Well, that is what I noticed under RHEL3, Fedora 8 and Mint 9.

With RHEL5, I noticed that there is no history per terminal, but one big history across terminal. This means that when I use two terminals or when I do an ssh to a different machine, all the history is saved chronologically.
When I want to use a previous command in a certain terminal, I have to go through all commands including those of an other terminal and stopped terminals to find the one I need.

In the past I only had to go through the history of that particular terminal.

Is there a way to restore this so that I only have to walk through the history of one terminal instead of all?

I am using RHEL5, GNOME and ksh.

Thank you

I think the behaviour you are seeing is due to your use of ksh. I've never used ksh but apparently it shares history between all running instances for that user. bash does not do this. I suspect that when you say you didn't see the behaviour in RHEL3 Fedora and Mint it's because you were using bash not ksh.

So I'd suggest either using bash instead of ksh or setting up ksh to use separate history files.
http://kornshell.com/doc/faq.html
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...-for-same-user

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Dear arizonagroovejet,

Thank you for the link to the kornshell faq.

With the help of this faq, I created a line in the .kshrc file that sets the history file.

The created files are removed at logon.
This will keep everything clean.