How to Enable Command History for root accessing via ssh?

[bollar]

I'm sure this is a noob/faq question, but I can't figure out what search terms here or in FreeBSD will give me the answer.

I'd like to have command history enabled when the root user accesses Freenas by ssh. Somehow I have enabled this on one of my boxes, but not the other.

Both roots have /bin/csh selected as the shell in GUI and have identical .cshrc files, which indicate history is enabled if tcsh is selected. I have confirmed both are using csh using $SHELL. Changing the shell to tcsh from the GUI doesn't seem to enable history.

The box that supports history has a .history file, as you would expect.

So, I have to figure that the answer is obvious... To one of you...

 

[ProtoSD]

Hi Bollar,

This is more of a FreeBSD type question, but depending on the shell, for BASH it would be something like:

export HISTSIZE=500

Try a google search for the shell you want and "history".

 

[bollar]

So, the answer to this was painfully simple. Enabling write on the USB (yes, I know, not recommended) allowed the settings to function properly.

 

[jgreco]

Oh. Yeah, you should create a separate root user with a home directory on your pool if you want that to work "safely".