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From: buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: no command history with ksh as root?
Keywords: ksh history root
Message-ID: <497@siswat.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 90 04:36:30 GMT
Organization: Photon Graphics,  Houston
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On two different systems, ksh history editing just beeps at me in vi
mode instead of rolling back to the last command.  Things work fine
if I am a normal user.  There is a .sh_history file that contains the
history in both cases.

I am working through "The Korn Shell" book, but can't find anything
about such a restriction.  Do I have something set up wrong, or is
history use while root restricted for some security reason?


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A. Lester Buck     buck@siswat.lonestar.org  ...!texbell!moray!siswat!buck