I have searched the man pages and FAQs but I cannot see why bash HISTORY fails to work. During a single session history using up arrow works fine, although I have not tested it thoroughly. But on loading the first terminal after booting - there is no history. My .bashrc is
<br><br>PATH="${PATH}:." export PATH<br><br> set gives<br><br>GROUPS=()<br>GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/dgh/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2<br>HISTFILE=/home/dgh/.bash_history<br>HISTFILESIZE=500<br>HISTSIZE=500<br>HOME=/home/dgh
<br>HOSTNAME=dgh-laptop<br><br> ls -al gives<br><br>drwxr-xr-x 26 dgh dgh 4096 2008-01-09 13:29 alfgar<br>-rw------- 1 root root 153 2007-11-10 11:35 .bash_history<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 dgh dgh 29 2007-11-10 14:08 .bashrc
<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 dgh dgh 29 2007-11-10 14:05 .bashrc~<br>drwxr-xr-x 3 dgh dgh 4096 2008-01-02 19:23 .cache<br><br>The date is when Ububtu was installed.<br> <br>Hold it! I think I may have seen it. Should .bash_history be owned by me?
<br><br>I will still post this as it may be of interest to someone.<br><br>Cheers Dominic<br><br>