On Wednesday 30 October 2002 09:23 am, you is done writ:
> Words by Gordon Ewasiuk [Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 06:29:46AM -0500]:
> > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Ramesh Pathak wrote:
> > > From: "Emmanuel Seyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 5:41 PM
>> > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:15:23PM +0800, Roger wrote:
> > > > My question is the same as the subject, how to delete the bash
> > > > history of root. any suggestion is appreciated
> > > Good Question .. In fact I wud also love to know how to do this ...
> > >
> > > if without logout how to do?
<snip of rm ~/.bash_history> > >
> Yes, but it will not delete the history items stores in memory, not yet
> flushed to ~/.bash_history, at logout they will all be writen to that
> file. If you export the HISTFILE to /dev/null they will be flushed to
> /dev/null:
<snip>
> Indeed.
> unset HISTFILE; rm -rf /root/.bash_history;
Missed one -
Put the unset command, above, in your .bashrc, and add a line that reads
unset HISTFILESIZE
which will prevent a history file from being written in the first place.
I won't even *ask* the obvious question, just why you want to leave no
history file behind, for your next session.
mark "that's a question for your sysadmin/security administrator
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