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Re: Chkrootkit reports "Warning: `//root/.bash_history' file size is zero"



On Tuesday 28 October 2008, "Robert Schmidli" 
<robert.spam.me.senseless@gmail.com> wrote about 'Chkrootkit 
reports "Warning: `//root/.bash_history' file size is zero"':
>I got the above message last night from chkrootkit.  I haven't touched
>my /root/.bash_history.  Are there any programs that modify this?

bash and it's built-ins touch this file all the time.  I generally wouldn't 
worry about changes to it, unless you happen to use history expansion 
often to refer to commands typed in previous sessions.
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