On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:30:22AM -0700, jim martin wrote: > I was wondering how the command history work. For > example when I type history in the root, I am seeing > all the past commands that I had type. But my > colleague did type some commands just now but they > seems not shown in the history file. He is type those Check this out: <http://www.wylug.org.uk/talks/2003/07/bash_tips.html> Additionally, I suggest *always* using sudo to perform root-access tasks, since this is logged for later review. (So you can check much, much later to see if you've screwed something up.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 78 degrees Fahrenheit.