[YLUG] Bash History problem

[Dominic Hibbs]

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

PATH="${PATH}:." export PATH

    set gives

GROUPS=()
GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/dgh/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
HISTFILE=/home/dgh/.bash_history
HISTFILESIZE=500
HISTSIZE=500
HOME=/home/dgh
HOSTNAME=dgh-laptop

    ls -al gives

drwxr-xr-x 26 dgh  dgh   4096 2008-01-09 13:29 alfgar
-rw-------  1 root root   153 2007-11-10 11:35 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 dgh  dgh     29 2007-11-10 14:08 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--  1 dgh  dgh     29 2007-11-10 14:05 .bashrc~
drwxr-xr-x  3 dgh  dgh   4096 2008-01-02 19:23 .cache

The date is when Ububtu was installed.

Hold it!  I think I may have seen it.  Should .bash_history be owned by me?

I will still post this as it may be of interest to someone.

Cheers  Dominic
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