To expand on the answer - the physical storage system on redsleeve are
usually SDCards or equivalent.

Frequent reads/writes to it will shorten its life.

I mean, /var/log/messages is bad enough I think.


Regards

Maulvi

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/03/2014 04:06 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>> Well I finally realized why no history for user root.
>>
>> /root/.bash_history is linked to /dev/null
>>
>> What is the reason for this?  Is it for security reasons?
>>
>
> Yes.
>
>  How do I remove this link and create a regular .bash_history file?
>>
>
> You aren't seriously asking this question on a list for a Linux distro
> that _really_ isn't for Linux newbies, are you?
>
> rm /root/.bash_history
> touch /root/.bash_history
>
> Gordan
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