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From: Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:35:42
Message-Id: 42CC2163.5060609@planet.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing by maxim wexler
1 maxim wexler schreef:
2 >>Try to adjust those variables:
3 >>
4 >>HISTFILE=/home/your_account/.bash_history
5 >>HISTFILESIZE=500
6 >>HISTSIZE=500
7 >>
8 >>
9 >>HTH, noro
10 >
11 >
12 > Thanks noro.
13 >
14 > I had to run the above from root and sure enough, they
15 > were written into my home dir .bash_history, along
16 > with the exit command to get back to user-space. So I
17 > ran a series of ls's just to check but they don't
18 > appear.
19 >
20 > So what now?
21
22 Umm, not that I actually know anything about this, but I find it hard to
23 imagine that a file written by root wouldn't be owned by root and would
24 not exclude the user from being able to write to it.
25
26 Why did you have to create a user file as root (not saying you didn't
27 have to, just asking why)?
28
29 Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing maxim wexler <blissfix@×××××.com>