How to clear history logs of all terminal sessions
Hi,
I would normally clear off the history entries from a terminal by using the following commands:
But this will remove the entries of that particular session only. How to prune all the entries of all login sessions for a particular user in a system?
N.B: I do not want to delete ~/.bash_history file.
how do I clear passwd history of a user without compromising the audit trail for security?
in a nutshell, user abc wants to re-use his passwd ( he is not savvy with computers ) (4 Replies)
Hello
a few Q's that if anyone knows the answer to i would be grateful:
:confused: when exiting a terminal session run through a windows environment i can either type exit or use ctrl +D. I was wondering if one way was a 'cleaner' method to exit then the other or whether it is executed the... (2 Replies)
Hi...
i have one doubt pls...
1)can we clear the command line history in UNIX for a paricular login(scadm/root)if so how?.
2) can we see the time at which command executed.
history is showing like :
100 display
101 lock
102 exit (7 Replies)
hi
Any one can help me. I am using Sun_Solaris. The command history set to 100 at .cshrc. I am unable to clear the command histoy. In Linux it is very easy by giving command
history -c
I could not find any such type command to clear the history.
Is there any such type of command for solaris.... (3 Replies)
We are running AIX. Shell is ksh. I used to have the ability to recall commands from prior sessions using <exc> k. Now, suddenly, I only can recall commands run during the current session. When I start a session, I have no command history. Also, when I run the shell command from a current... (1 Reply)
Hello All, Good Morning.
I am trying to erase history list in my linux box, but my below command is failing. What is the actual way to clear it?
> history clear
-bash: history: clear: numeric argument required
Also when I run my commands in my command prompt, my team lead can see my... (7 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I need to remove log files for six hours on Solaris. before i used to do for every 24 hours below is the code for 1 day older log files, now i tried using -mmin +360 but it says command not found.
Can someone please help me out!!!
part of the code:
LOG_FILE=`find /home/Logdir... (1 Reply)
I want to clear the history so that no one should be able to see what commands I gave in the AIX OS level. I tried using history -c , ~/.sh_history, but they aren't working :wall:
Please tell me the command in ksh which can clear all the previous history? (4 Replies)
Hi
Am using ksh shell
I need to remove history of commands used..
I tried
# rm .vi_history
# touch .vi_history
# chmod 600 .vi_history
This didnt work.. I tried also
# rm .sh_history
# touch .sh_history
# chmod 600 .sh_history (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Priya Amaresh
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
wtmp
utmp(5) File Formats Manual utmp(5)Name
utmp, wtmp - login records
Syntax
#include <utmp.h>
Description
The file records information about who is currently using the system. The file is a sequence of entries with the following structure
declared in the include file:
struct utmp {
char ut_line[8]; /* tty name */
char ut_name[8]; /* user id */
char ut_host[16]; /* host name, if remote */
long ut_time; /* time on */
};
This structure gives the name of the special file associated with the user's terminal, the user's login name, and the time of the login in
the form of
The file records all logins and logouts. A null user name indicates a logout on the associated terminal. A terminal referenced with a
tilde (~) indicates that the system was rebooted at the indicated time. The adjacent pair of entries with terminal names referenced by a
vertical bar (|) or a right brace (}) indicate the system-maintained time just before and just after a command has changed the system's
timeframe.
The file is maintained by and Neither of these programs creates the file, so, if it is removed, record-keeping is turned off. It is summa-
rized by
FilesSee Alsolast(1), lastcomm(1), login(1), who(1), ac(8), init(8)utmp(5)