topic root history in Operating System - HP-UX

root history

Waugh — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:03:54 GMT

Hi,

What is the path of root history

Regards
Rkumar

Re: root history

Ivan Krastev — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:28:25 GMT

Normal is in root home directory. Check .profile or /etc/profile if it's modified to another location.

regards,
ivan

Re: root history

Jeeshan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:44:08 GMT

normally it was not activated. but the .profile or /etc/profile or any other location of the root's profile can show you its history location.

Re: root history

sreekanthtm — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:54:49 GMT

If my understanding is right, you are asking for 'Shell History file" for root user.

Login as root
#echo $HISTFILE will show the path

Normally set it to /.sh_history

Rgds
Sreekanth

Re: root history

Bill Hassell — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:26:33 GMT

root's shell history must be manually enabled. The root shell must always be /sbin/sh and to enable the shell history, add these variables to /etc/profile:

export HISTFILE=$HOME/.sh_history
export HISTSIZE=5000
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi

Then create the history file by logging in as root and type:

touch $HOME/.sh_history

Now logout and login again. Type any command such as ls, then type: ESC k CR (no spaces) where ESC=escape key, k is the letter k and CR is the Return or Enter key.