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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to create .sh_history file Post 5746 by LivinFree on Tuesday 21st of August 2001 11:54:48 PM
Old 08-22-2001

It should be created automatically by the shell... I may be wrong, though. Also, I think some shells have the ability to turn the shell history recording off - I'm almost sure that at least in some C shells, it can be set by a simple parameter.

If you want to see what they're REALLY doing (.sh_history files can be edited), look into process accounting. It isn't used as often now as it used to, because it can impact the speed of systems with many users / processes, but if it's built into your kernel, you can turn it on or off.

See if the acct command, or something similar exists on your system. If all else fails, try man -k accounting to find it by another name.

HTH
 

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MAKEDBZ(8)						      System Manager's Manual							MAKEDBZ(8)

NAME
makedbz - rebuild dbz files SYNOPSIS
makedbz [ -f filename ] [ -i ] [ -o ] [ -s size ] DESCRIPTION
Makedbz rebuilds dbz(3) database. The default name of the text file is <pathdb in inn.conf>/history; to specify a different name, use the ``-f'' flag. OPTIONS
-f If the ``-f'' flag is used, then the database files are named file.dir , file.index and file.hash. If the ``-f'' flag is not used, then a temporary link to the name history.n is made and the database files are written as history.n.index , history.n.hash and his- tory.n.dir. -i To ignore the old database use the ``-i'' flag. Using the ``-o'' or ``-s'' flag implies the ``-i'' flag. -o If the ``-o'' flag is used, then the link is not made and any existing history files are overwritten. If the old database exists, makedbz will use it to determine the size of the new database. -s The program will also ignore any old database if the ``-s'' flag is used to specify the approximate number of entries in the new database. Accurately specifying the size is an optimization that will create a more efficient database. (The size should be the estimated eventual size of the file, typically the size of the old file.) For more information, see the discussion of dbzfresh and dbzsize in dbz(3). HISTORY
Written by Katsuhiro Kondou <kondou@nec.co.jp> for InterNetNews. This is revision 1.1, dated 1999/08/27. SEE ALSO
dbz(3), history(5), inn.conf(5). MAKEDBZ(8)
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