The logs are not created by sysadmins to spy on you. The .bash_history file is created by bash itself and is actually quite useful and can do alot of niffty things, you can search the history to find a recently used comand for instance by using a bang(!) and the first few letters of the command and thats only one of many tricks. If it really offends you just use "shopt -u cmdhist" to disable the command history. As for the web pages, caching of pages is standard practice on almost any system you use. Any Windows machine does the same thing. If you dont like them caching the site, dont visit it from the schools machines, that simple. They are not your personal machines and are not admined by you. The admins can log whatever they see fit to ensure proper use of their systems. If you dont like it, dont use it.


P.S. Most admins are not going to rifle through your logs unless there is a problem, they have work to do. So if you arent causing trouble, dont worry about it.

-Maestr0