We can always set time to the commands showed in history command. Why we require to set time for this?
This is totally a security measure and used for troubleshooting/fingerprinting a security threat.
history command sample output before setting this variable.
466 df -h 467 df 468 exit 469 nfsstat 470 find / -iname *.ppt 471 ftp2 472 man ping 473 ping -R google.com
So how to set that?
Use inbuilt variable HISTTIMEFORMAT to set the values as shown below
#export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T '
%F for setting year/month/day
%T for setting time
now try to execute history command to see the difference
#history
sample output
500 2011-03-16 17:06:09 exit 501 2011-03-16 17:06:14 apt-get install tree 502 2011-03-16 17:06:36 tree 503 2011-03-16 17:06:54 man tree 504 2011-03-16 17:07:02 tree -d 505 2011-03-16 17:07:07 tree
If you restart/logout from machine will this setting available to you?
A simple answer for this is no. Then how can we make it permanent?
Just append this variable to .bash_profile for every user.
echo "export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T '" >> ~/.bash_profile
How about setting this value to the new user which are going to be created on the machine?
export it to /etc/profile file
echo "export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T '" >> /etc/profile
Please feel free to comment your thoughts on this.
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