Re: What does the exit command do?

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

Keith Goodman wrote:
> If I become another user, say www-data, I get an error when I exit Octave:
>
>
> > exit
>
> error: Permission denied
>
> What does the exit command do? Does it write to a file?

It writes $HOME/.octave_hist. Does www-data have a $HOME?
If not (I think) it will write to /.octave_hist
which is probably not allowed...

Dmitri.



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