Hack Back – A DIY guide to those without the patience to wait for whistleblowers

Re:Hack Back – A DIY guide to those without the patience to ... by zerohp on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @04:57PM (#8170124)

> I can erase or alter logs, but then there are logs logged of me vi'ing logs, so I erase the shell history, but then that gets logged when I log out. It's a weird loop I don't know how to defeat, but some people do.

This is trivial, but you need to be familiar with the environment variables used by bash. unset HISTFILE

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Re:Hack Back – A DIY guide to those without the patience to ... by yourad_io on Thursday August 14, 2014 @08:28AM (#8177090)

Or kill the shell from within, avoiding history write:

    $ vi /var/log/*.log
    $ kill -9 $BASHPID

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