"Michelle A. Hoyle" wrote: > >Searching for anomalies in shell history files... Warning: > >`//root/.bash_history' file size is zero > > And, if I check the .bash_history file, it is indeed 0 and doesn't > seem to be writing anything into it. If I do a "history", it starts > off with item 0, with something from this session (but the > .bash_history file is still empty). Did this file get rotated out of > existence because it finally got too big or where did it go? > > Do I need to worry about this?
Perhaps. On my RaQ4, with the latest upgrades, the .bash_history file is NOT zero, and does not get zeroed-out on ssh login either to admin (with or without su to root) or ssh login directly to root. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux and Cobalt/Sun/RaQ Consulting nobaloney.net P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA 92517 voice: (909) 778-9980 * fax: (702) 548-9484 _______________________________________________ cobalt-security mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security
