Ankush Grover wrote:Please tell me how to delete the user's bash history file after he or she logs out. I tried this /etc/skel/bash_logout
rm -f $HOME/bash_history
But it is not working.
Can anyone tell me how to do this .I want to do it for every user.
Dear Ankush
the easiest way would be a cronjob, that does a history -c every 5 minutes or so.
on a wider approach you might wanna try to make your own daemon, that does the job.
i hope that helps you further
Wouldn't a better method be to prevent the creation of the history file in the first place?
One way to do this might be:
# echo "unset HISTFILE" > /etc/profile.d/nohistfile.sh # chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/nohistfile.sh
I haven't tried this but it *should* work.
Paul.
