Re: history files

From: Erik Ljungström (erik@northernmost.org)
Date: 12/27/02 

From: "Erik Ljungström" <erik@northernmost.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 07:00:06 GMT

On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 05:20:44 +0000, root wrote:

> I believe that some of the history files are being modified on one of
> our servers. How can I prevent, or tell for sure if this is happening.

You mean ~/.bash_history?

What you could do is check with last when the user was logged
in, and compare that with the date of his bash_history file.

And stop using your root account for tasks such as newsgroup posting. 

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