> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:00:33AM -0800, Ben Yau wrote: > > > > And what prevents him from clearing the log in his logout script? > > > > You'll just get a nice empty file mailed to you every time he logs > > > > in.... > > > > > > > True, I didn't know how linux savvy of a user he was dealing > with. Ours > > > wasn't and this worked for us. > > > > > > > Actually, even if he empties it on logout, it will still write > the commands > > from that login sessoin. bash will write the command history > as the last > > step of logging out. Try it out yourself . Put > > > > echo "" > ~/.bash_history > > Replace that with: > history -c > > Poof, history gone. Verified. > Nice.. Learn something new every day. In which case we start getting into more convuluted ways like compiling a wrapper around bash to not use the history -c or else to output username/command to a file. But it does'nt look like there isn't a clean way to do it. Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
