Thank you guys,

Actually, it was for the security reason that if somebody breaks in the
server then he/she doesn't see what commands are being executed, etc,
etc....

and I am using /bin/sh

any more comments?

thanks,
VJ


On 6/2/07, Kevin Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

At 1:56p -0400 on 02 Jun 2007, sac wrote:
> On 6/2/07, Christopher Hilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> VeeJay wrote:
>>> Could someone would like to describe that how we can disable to show
>>> last executed commands by pressing Up Arrow?
>>>
>>
>> That would depend on which shell you are running. Can you run the
>> following command and post the results here?
>>
>>      echo $SHELL
>
> By default most of the shells like bash, zsh, ksh have history option.
> But you can avoid writing the history of the current session to the
> history file by unsetting the HISTFILE environment variable.
> So next time when you login the history of the previous session will
> not be shown.

I'd be curious as to the underlying "why?".  Having a history of what
you've done is generally a Good Thing.  The only reason that I
personally have ever come across to necessitate not storing my actions
is when I'm playing a prank on one of my friends.  Other than that,
having the ability to go see what commands I was executing three years
ago comes in awful handy.  I /could/ recreate that arcane command
sequence for that one-off job I needed 1,237 days ago, or I could do a

history | grep 'substring I remember in command' | less

And, if you're worried about the space it takes to store the history,
don't.  It's extremely negligible.

Kevin




--
Thanks!

BR / vj
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