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Date:      Sun, 5 May 2002 01:10:09 -0400
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To:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        <genisis@istar.ca>
Subject:   Re: bash & csh History 
Message-ID:  <000401c1f3f3$214a3b40$0200a8c0@afi>
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Hi Dru,

> In the .history file of the user's home directory. If they su to root, in
> the .history file found in /root.

Gotcha, thanks.

> Bash is a little bit more interesting as its history is kept in memory
> until the user logs out. Then it is stored in the user's .bash_history
file in
> their home directory.

That is what I seemed to be seeing, it was just my history file was getting
too big.

> for csh:   set history=# in user's .cshrc
> for bash:  HISTSIZE=# in user's .profile

That make sense, I just added it, so we will see how it goes.

> Use "vipw" and change that user's shell to bash.

Is that part of the OS or a port? I am not logged in right now so won`t be
able to
check until tomorrow. Anymore info on this program?

>You could do the same for the root user's entry, but AFAIK this causes
> problems if you ever need to boot into single user mode??? Not sure as I
don't
> use bash myself :)

Anyone else care to share some comments on this?

Thanks for the help Dru,

Dan



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