On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:30:22AM -0700, jim martin wrote:
I was wondering how the command history work. For example when I type history in the root, I am seeing all the past commands that I had type. But my colleague did type some commands just now but they seems not shown in the history file. He is type those
Check this out:
http://www.wylug.org.uk/talks/2003/07/bash_tips.html
Additionally, I suggest *always* using sudo to perform root-access tasks, since this is logged for later review. (So you can check much, much later to see if you've screwed something up.)