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From: "Aaron Burke" <aburke@nullplusone.com>
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Subject: RE: bash & csh History 
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You can copy /usr/local/bin/bash to /bin/bash it will work fine after that.
Then even root should have bash in single user mode. /root is not generally
on the /usr partition, it is generally on /. So you should even have
/root/.bash_history in single mode.

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> Cc: genisis@istar.ca
> Subject: Re: bash & csh History
>
>
> Hi Dru,
>
> > In the .history file of the user's home directory. If they su
> to root, in
> > the .history file found in /root.
>
> Gotcha, thanks.
>
> > Bash is a little bit more interesting as its history is kept in memory
> > until the user logs out. Then it is stored in the user's .bash_history
> file in
> > their home directory.
>
> That is what I seemed to be seeing, it was just my history file
> was getting
> too big.
>
> > for csh:   set history=# in user's .cshrc
> > for bash:  HISTSIZE=# in user's .profile
>
> That make sense, I just added it, so we will see how it goes.
>
> > Use "vipw" and change that user's shell to bash.
>
> Is that part of the OS or a port? I am not logged in right now so won`t be
> able to
> check until tomorrow. Anymore info on this program?
>
> >You could do the same for the root user's entry, but AFAIK this causes
> > problems if you ever need to boot into single user mode??? Not sure as I
> don't
> > use bash myself :)
>
> Anyone else care to share some comments on this?
>
> Thanks for the help Dru,
>
> Dan
>
>
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