Viewing Operation History

Use the pkg history command to view the command history in the current image.

/usr/bin/pkg history [-Hl] [-t [time | time-time],...] [-o column,...] [-n number]

Use the -l option to display more information, including the outcome of the command, the time the command completed, the version and name of the client used, the name of the user who performed the operation, and any errors encountered while executing the command.

Use the -n option to display only the specified number of most recent operations.

$ pkg history -n4
START                    OPERATION                CLIENT             OUTCOME
2011-09-07T12:15:52      update                   pkg                Succeeded
2011-09-26T18:53:12      refresh-publishers       pkg                Succeeded
2011-09-26T18:53:50      rebuild-image-catalogs   pkg                Succeeded
2011-09-27T09:05:34      update                   pkg                Succeeded

Use the -o option to display output using the specified comma-separated list of column names. See the list of column names in pkg(1).

# pkg history -o start,time,operation,outcome -n4
START                    TIME      OPERATION                OUTCOME
2011-09-07T12:15:52      0:13:56   update                   Succeeded
2011-09-26T18:53:12      0:01:22   refresh-publishers       Succeeded
2011-09-26T18:53:50      0:00:44   rebuild-image-catalogs   Succeeded
2011-09-27T09:05:34      0:20:08   update                   Succeeded

Use the -t option to log records for a comma-separated list of timestamps, formatted with %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S (see strftime(3C)). To specify a range of times, use a hyphen (-) between a start and finish timestamp. The keyword now can be used as an alias for the current time. If the timestamps specified contain duplicate timestamps or overlapping date ranges, only a single instance of each duplicate history event is printed.

Use the pkg purge-history command to delete all command history information.

# pkg purge-history