On 13 Nov 2003 20:34:06 -0600 Tom Penney <blots at visi.com> wrote: > I just noticed that the .bash_history file is gone on a box that I am > supposedly the only one with root access. RedHat 7.2. Can anyone think > of a legitimate reason why the history might vanish? Unless root's ~/.bash_logout contains a line to rm or otherwise modify the .bash_history, the possibilities are few. A bad shutdown, at a time the file was open for writing could potentially have caused its loss.. but otherwise, the obvious conclusion is that *someone* ran as root, did some work, and decided to try to cover their tracks in a simplemided fashion. -L _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list