It seems the best way to deal with this is to copy the .bash_history to another directory.You could do it under script. Many thanks Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Burger" <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 6:10 AM Subject: Re: save commands history. On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez wrote: > --- Mohamed Kerbachi <Mohamed.Kerbachi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > escribió: > Hello, > > > > Is there way to save the commands history of a user > > in other place than $HOME where he can't delete it ? > > > > Thanks. > > Maybe you can change .bash_history permission and > group in order to not allow the user removed it. > > Look at man chmod, man chown and man chgrp I don't think that wouldn fly...to disallow deletion, you'd have to turn off write capability...which would then disallow the ability for commands to go into the .bash_history file, in the first place. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list