On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 12:09:45PM -0800, Todd Walton wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:06:15 -0800 (PST), Neil Schneider
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > RBW1 said:
> > > I've noticed that the /root/.bash_history gets rest to a file size of
> > > zero every once in a while under SuSE 9.1. Does anyone know what this
> > > effect is about?
> > 
> > It's probably part of the security settings.
> 
> What security could regularly erasing the .bash_history offer?
> 

<pffff> A lot for me ... I must type a passwd into bash by accident once
a day or more.

history -c is your friend.

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