On 6/27/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Oliver Leitner wrote: > > 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. > Hey, Thanks for the reply.But my intention is too delete the history file when the user logs out automatically.The example I posted is taken from this link. http://www.faqs.org/docs/gazette/tips.html I tried this also $HOME/.bash_history not: $HOME/bash_history but it is not working. I will try these # echo "unset HISTFILE" > /etc/profile.d/nohistfile.sh > # chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/nohistfile.sh and history -c Thanks & Regards Ankush Grover
