On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 09:42:29AM +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> rename(".historyz.new", ".historyz") [loses] all permissions and
> user/owner of the original .historyz file.

I think that having rsync maintain the current permissions and group is
a desirable feature.  I also like Bart's idea that zsh should refuse to
re-write the history file (with a warning) if it is currently owned by
some other user.  The attached patch does this.  (If folks like the
idea for the upcoming release, I'll go ahead and commit it.)

As for the HISTFILE behavior when using sudo, I have code in my .zshrc
that makes sure that root writes out its history into its own history
file.  You can do this by conditionally redefining HISTFILE based on the
current user (among other possibilities).

..wayne..