[PLUG] Vanishing .bash_history

[Anthony Schlemmer]

Any chance the file had read-only permissions on it? I tried this before 
and when there is no owner write permission on .bash_history, the file 
isn't updated at all. If the file is empty, it stays empty until owner 
write permission is set on the file. 

Tony

On Friday 09 August 2002 17:17 pm, John Hampton wrote:
> Sandy said:
> >The first thing that comes to mind is that your system was hacked.
> > Does it look like /var/log/* is intact?
>
> That was the first thing that came to my ind too.  But everytheing
> else looks fine on the system.  If it was hacked, the hacker went
> through many pains to make sure I wouldn't see his tracks.
>
> Today I logged back in and still, the .bash_history file size was 0. 
> So I blew it away. and then logged out and back in.  I executed some
> commands and then logged out and back in again.  Now my history is
> working properly again.  However, I am still stumped as to why it had
> the problem in the first place.
>
> -John Hampton

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