Question about Command History after reboot...

[Jay Ridgley]

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:44:00 -0800 From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: Question about Command History after reboot...
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: <iejdfh$i3m$1 at dough.gmane.org> 
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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.


That fixed it! Many thanks.

Cheers,
Jay




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Jay Ridgley
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