Question about Command History after reboot...

[NoOp]

On 12/18/2010 01:30 PM, Jay Ridgley wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I am currently running 8.04 LTS on my primary system, when I reboot the command 
> line history is still available via a terminal window. However, on my laptop 
> running 10.04.1 LTS the command line history is not present in a terminal window 
> after a reboot. How do I get the command line history to display for 10.04.1?

I ran into something similar awhile back, see:
<http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/226763>

Turns out that my /home/<username>/.bash_history was owned by root. If
so, use chown to change the owner to the user.