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From: Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:22:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42CC2163.5060609@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050706181146.77198.qmail@web31703.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

maxim wexler schreef:
>>Try to adjust those variables:
>>
>>HISTFILE=/home/your_account/.bash_history
>>HISTFILESIZE=500
>>HISTSIZE=500
>>
>>
>>HTH, noro
> 
> 
> Thanks noro.
> 
> I had to run the above from root and sure enough, they
> were written into my home dir .bash_history, along
> with the exit command to get back to user-space. So I
> ran a series of ls's just to check but they don't
> appear.
> 
> So what now?

Umm, not that I actually know anything about this, but I find it hard to
imagine that a file written by root wouldn't be owned by root and would
not exclude the user from being able to write to it.

Why did you have to create a user file as root (not saying you didn't
have to, just asking why)?

Holly
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-06 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <42CAF6C3.4040709@xmedia.sk>
2005-07-06 18:11 ` [gentoo-user] bash_history missing maxim wexler
2005-07-06 18:22   ` Holly Bostick [this message]
2005-07-06 20:47     ` maxim wexler
2005-07-06 18:24   ` Dave Nebinger
2005-07-06 21:06     ` maxim wexler
2005-07-06 23:35       ` Willie Wong
2005-07-07 12:51       ` Dave Nebinger
2005-07-07 13:00         ` David Morgan
2005-07-07 14:37           ` [gentoo-user] still struggeling with kuser Uwe Thiem
2005-07-08  4:14           ` [gentoo-user] bash_history missing maxim wexler
2005-07-08  6:45             ` Marshal Newrock
2005-07-08  8:11             ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2005-07-08 18:02             ` Richard Fish
2005-07-08 19:09               ` [gentoo-user] bash_history missing --now w/ dead pc maxim wexler
2005-07-08 20:19                 ` Mark Shields
2005-07-08 22:05                   ` A. Khattri
2005-07-25 18:29         ` [gentoo-user] bash_history missing maxim wexler

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