Archiving History files

[carlos_perez at darkoperator.com (Carlos Perez)]

Is it a shared system? if it is and the user is not root create a cron job
to do the copy of the file every x time.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Monkey Daemon <
monkeywebdaemon at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just discovered a system on which one of our darling users has
> decided adding a script to his .bash_logout file that removes
> .bash_history on logout is a clever thing to do.
>
> Is there a way to take a copy of the .bash_history file before it is
> deleted? This user obviously has something to hide as far as I'm
> concerned, so I need to archive this file to present it as evidence.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> MWD.
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