save commands history.

[Ed Wilts]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:00:33AM -0800, Ben Yau wrote:
> > > And what prevents him from clearing the log in his logout script?
> > > You'll just get a nice empty file mailed to you every time he logs
> > > in....
> > >
> > True, I didn't know how linux savvy of a user he was dealing with. Ours
> > wasn't and this worked for us.
> >
> 
> Actually, even if he empties it on logout, it will still write the commands
> from that login sessoin.  bash will write the command history as the last
> step of logging out.  Try it out yourself . Put
> 
> echo "" > ~/.bash_history

Replace that with:
history -c

Poof, history gone.  Verified.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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