> On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 02:52, 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?
>
> >From 'man bash' that is your choice. In the section on 'Shell Variables'
> you can see this:
>
> HISTFILE
> The name of the file in which command history is
> saved (see HISTORY below). The default value is
> ~/.bash_history. If unset, the command history is
> not saved when an interactive shell exits.
>
> So, if you want an empty history on startup, make sure HISTFILE is
> unset.
>
> --
> C. Linus Hicks <lhicks@xxxxxxxxx>
>
Well, it seems like it must be set by DEFAULT, and needs to be unset
(Ill try that) since I dont see it being SET (or even mentioned) anywhere.
--
Reg.Clemens
reg@xxxxxxx
