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Date:      Sun, 3 Jun 2007 04:15:49 -0500
From:      "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
To:        VeeJay <maanjee@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to disable command prompt history?
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On 03/06/07, VeeJay <maanjee@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you guys,
>
> Actually, it was for the security reason that if somebody breaks in the
> server then he/she doesn't see what commands are being executed, etc,
> etc....
>
> and I am using /bin/sh
>
> any more comments?
>

I would not have (honestly!) thought that
/bin/sh _when called as such_ would save
a history*.

Glancing at man sh cured me of that notion.



* I mean, it's a primitive piece of crap, in its
own special way, but that's how /bin/sh is
supposed to respond, AFIK? Syntax confu-
sing is, never the same person twice, fnord?

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