Re: [cobalt-users] Recent Hacks

[Mike Vanecek <nospam99@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 06:02:31 -0500, "Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

:>> > > [root@www /root]# cat /.bash_history
:>
:>I try this as admin or as root and I get "no such file or directory".
:>locate .bash_history gets me some files in a couple of user's directories -
:>ones that are my directories and one other user on the machine whom I trust
:>(and who's on this list)... but nothing else.
:>

I was curious about that myself. I had the same results. <As I remember on>,
the shell initializes the history file upon login. To see the current contents
of that file (which will show up as zero for accounts which are using the bash
shell) one does a history. One can do a cat or less of history files for not
active accounts. <As I remember off>

I do not understand the cat command working as was shown.

Is this because the system was zapped?