why doesn't command history work for user root?

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <8091 at elsie.UUCP> ado at elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
| Okay gang. . .the REAL scoop on why ksh doesn't keep history for the root user:
| after your system has crashed and comes up single user, you don't want to be
| writing command history to the root partition and possibly compounding damage
| to the file system.

Good point. I have my system set for login root to use sh and kr (ksh
root) to use ksh. The only time I run as root is when I'm in maint mode.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu at ge-crd.arpa)
  {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me