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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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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