Our Security group will be installing Qualys to scan for vulnerabilities and compliance.
This of course will fill up our bash History. No … please!!
I found the fix below in the Qualys documentation. However I cannot find the .bash_profile for root. Any ideas? Thank you.
To prevent putting Qualys commands in root’s history file, add the following to the bottom of the root user’s .bash_profile:
Added to stop Qualys filling up history
loginUser=logname
if [ ${loginUser} == qualys ]; then
export HISTFILE=~/.qualys_history
fi
[QUOTE=kbannister;58631]Our Security group will be installing Qualys to scan for vulnerabilities and compliance.
This of course will fill up our bash History. No … please!!
I found the fix below in the Qualys documentation. However I cannot find the .bash_profile for root. Any ideas? Thank you.
To prevent putting Qualys commands in root’s history file, add the following to the bottom of the root user’s .bash_profile:
Added to stop Qualys filling up history
loginUser=logname
if [ ${loginUser} == qualys ]; then
export HISTFILE=~/.qualys_history
fi[/QUOTE]
According to the Administration Guide you can use ‘~/.profile’ for that.
David1
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I don’t think the root user has a .bash_profile by default - but that does not stop you from creating one. Or using ~/.profile.
I’m curious how the loginUser variable gets populated?