topic Re: .bash_history in Operating System - Linux

.bash_history

Harstad — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:55:12 GMT

Hi All

IÂ´ve defined for "root" (.bash_profile)the following :

HISTFILE=/.bash_history
HISTSIZE=1000

Checking the .bash_history there are no new entries,,

Thanks

Re: .bash_history

Jerome Henry — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:49:02 GMT

hi,
Should be
HISTFILE=/root/.bash_history
HISTFILE=1000
export $HISTFILE

hth

J

Re: .bash_history

Harstad — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:54:59 GMT

Hi

less .bash_profile

HISTFILE=/root/.bash_history
HISTSIZE=20480

export both one,,,

Login again,,,and there are no entries in .bash_history

strange,,,

Re: .bash_history

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:05:13 GMT

log on as root

env | more

see if the variables are set.

If not, take actons already recommended.

Check the permissions on .bash_history

They need to be rw by the owner and root needs to own it.

SEP

Re: .bash_history

Harstad — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:34:04 GMT

Hi

All checked,,and continuos without entries

Thanks

Re: .bash_history

Todd McDaniel_1 — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:05:59 GMT

I have similar in my .profile, but I have $HOME defined so that it will always put it in the current user's home dir...

REAL equals the user name as you su to root.

REAL=`logname`

HISTFILE=$HOME/.sh_$REAL
export HISTFILE
HISTSIZE=1000; export HISTSIZE

Modify as you can to fit your shell...

Re: .bash_history

Martin P.J. Zinser — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:09:49 GMT

Hello,

bash should create a history without you setting any of these variables. So to establish a baseline I do suggest to remove the current
.bash_history and remove the environment variables from the profile.

The login again, check if the history file gets/created filled.
In teh next step put in your environment variables again. Put echo statements in the script to make sure it actually gets executed during root login,
use printenv | grep -i hist to make sure the variables have been set.

HTH, Martin

Re: .bash_history

Todd McDaniel_1 — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:15:54 GMT

The main difference with my suggestion is that each and every user will have a separate history file...

I do this b/c I have several folks who have root access and I like to keep all our history files separate just because it is neater imho.

HPUX creates a generic catch-all history file as well, but I like to break it out for each root user, not for security, but for ease of reference and esp if more than one user is logged in as root at one time, which happens occasionally.

Re: .bash_history

Alexander Chuzhoy — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:24:25 GMT

Hi.

what does the
env |grep HIST
command returns?
there are more files for profile settings:
.bashrc
/etc/bashrc
/etc/profile

Best regards...

Re: .bash_history

Basil_4 — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:21:08 GMT

Harstad,

What history file are you looking at?

/.bash_history or /root/.bash_history?

Have you made sure that you are looking in root's homedir?

Finally, it may be worth reading some documentation on bash... ;-)

Re: .bash_history

Todd McDaniel_1 — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:21:56 GMT

Basil,

Thats why I recommended using $HOME... that way you are SURE what profile you are utilizing.