Re: History Files

[dufresne () WINTERNET COM (Ron DuFresne)]

Got an example of how this would be setup and not able for the user to
bypass in their .profile or .bash_profile?
Also, if they use csh would they bypass this

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Jeff Bachtel wrote:

> He could use the readonly builtin in /etc/profile
>
> jeff
>
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 07:34:54PM -0400, Dan Garcia wrote:
> > In /etc/profile u can set many things.
> > One is the HISTFILE.
> > Default is ~user/.bash_history
> > but u can specify another one.
> > May i add that login what user does on the shell can be futile.
> > And experience user can add to his .bash_profile the line:
> > export HISTFILE=/dev/null and voila! are never logged.

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