Re: can't write zsh_history

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Michael Hernandez wrote:
> The problem, which is really more of an annoyance than a problem, is  
> that if I su to run some command and I don't cd first,  
> my .zsh_history file becomes owned by root. After I exit from # and  
> run a command as my regular user, zsh tells me that it can't write  
> the history file, which of course it can't because it's now owned by  
> root. Is there something I can do to alter the way zsh writes to my  
> history file when I am root?

if (( ! EUID )); then
  HISTFILE=~/.history_root
else
  HISTFILE=~/.history
fi

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