" Maynard) (03/29/89)
After I installed 2.4, ksh forgot that it knows about history files -
but only on root's login. ^P (I use the emacs version) just rings the
bell, even if previous commands exist. /history exists and is writable,
but is empty. Everything works fine on my normal user login.
I've obviously forgotten something stupid; what is it?
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Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
uucp: uunet!nuchat! (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity.
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{killer,bellcore}!texbell! | "Less great!" "Tastes filling!"wlr@beach.cis.ufl.edu (William Ricker) (03/31/89)
In article <2560@splut.UUCP> jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes: > >After I installed 2.4, ksh forgot that it knows about history files - >but only on root's login. ^P (I use the emacs version) just rings the >bell, even if previous commands exist. /history exists and is writable, >but is empty. Everything works fine on my normal user login. > >I've obviously forgotten something stupid; what is it? I don't know why this happens for root, but if you put the following in your .profile for root it works fine. HISTFILE=/.history export HISTFILE Apparently, for a root user it does not use the default, ~/.history. Note: This must be in your .profile for this to work. I assume it trys to open the file after it reads in the .profile, if it does not have a value, and it seems for root, no default, it can open the file. This might prove to be an interesting security issue for root users. Anybody have an idea on this. -- Bill Ricker wlr@vlsi2.ee.ufl.edu 141 Turkey Creek wlr@beach.cis.ufl.edu Alachua, FL 32615 bill%ricker.UUCP@ufl.edu (904) 462-3377 gatech!uflorida!ricker!bill
wlr@beach.cis.ufl.edu (William Ricker) (03/31/89)
In article <19974@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> wlr@beach.cis.ufl.edu (me) writes: >and it seems for root, no default, it can open the file. This might prove ^^^^^ Ooops, I mean cannot open the file. -- Bill Ricker wlr@vlsi2.ee.ufl.edu 141 Turkey Creek wlr@beach.cis.ufl.edu Alachua, FL 32615 bill%ricker.UUCP@ufl.edu (904) 462-3377 gatech!uflorida!ricker!bill