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)