[OT] sudo, why not su? (Johann Spies)

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Aug 8 17:43:07 UTC 2005


sean at seanmiller.net wrote:

>> Uou... I hadn't seen this yet... is this by default? Where do I find the
>> logs? If I use two shells with "sudo su -"  at the same time will the
>> logs be overwritten (as it would happen with user "history"? )
> 
> Huh? I've never known that to happen - either I've just missed it entirely
> or something is very wrong with user history on your installation...

My experience is that if I have two shells open (bash), the only history
available to future sessions is the history of the last-closed session.
-- 
derek





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