Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: why doesn't command history work for user root?
Keywords: ksh
Message-ID: <11206@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 10 Jun 88 14:43:46 GMT
References: <321@cmtl01.UUCP> <10357@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <8091@elsie.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <8091@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
| Okay gang. . .the REAL scoop on why ksh doesn't keep history for the root user:
| after your system has crashed and comes up single user, you don't want to be
| writing command history to the root partition and possibly compounding damage
| to the file system.

Good point. I have my system set for login root to use sh and kr (ksh
root) to use ksh. The only time I run as root is when I'm in maint mode.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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