On Sunday 2004-10-10 20:52, Reg Clemens wrote: > OK, this error has been in the shells for a long time. > > If you bring up a new window, or just a shell as a regular user, > and then type 'history' you see what you should expect, one line > with the history command. > > If you now do a su, and become root, and then do the same 'history' > command you will see several hundred lines of history from who knows > how many previous sessions as root. > > If you bring up a second window, and become root there too, doing the > 'history' command will show the same -history- as the first (sigh) > > Shouldn't these things be truncated when the root shell closes down? well, you can set-up your log-out script to include cp /dev/null .history no? -- Copyright 2004 Angela Kahealani. All rights reserved without prejudice; UCC1-207. All information and transactions are non negotiable and are private between the parties. http://www.kahealani.com/
