Suddenly my history command do nothing

Niceman2005 · 04-04-2006, 10:40 PM

Dear friends,

I used history command a lot before. But somehow it doesn't work anymore. When I type history, nothing shows up. And the up and down arrow doesn't display the last command I typed.

Is there a disable command to disable it? maybe my colleague disabled it>....

thanks for helping.

Regards
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mickyg · 04-05-2006, 03:38 AM

Your bash history is stored in a file called .bash_history in your home directory. If that's empty then someone (root presumably) must have cleared it. Please tell us if you have anything in that file.

Issue this command in bash.

Code:

cat ~/.bash_history

Niceman2005 · 04-06-2006, 08:40 PM

Thanks Mickeyg.

I checked .bash_history. Yes you are right. its is empty in there. But how do I enable history to be activated again?

thanks a lot for taking time helping,
Really appreciate your help.

Regards
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PDock · 04-07-2006, 04:57 AM

Check that .bash_history is still owned by you with

Code:

ls -l .bash_history

from your home directory.

As root use chown to reset back to your username; only reason I can think of why your history is not captured.

Niceman2005 · 04-26-2006, 01:06 AM

Hi,

I checked the owner of the .bash_history file, its all right. Own by root and its a root history.
Don't know why what ever I do i cannot get the history back. even when I log into another account and check the history i cannot find any history there.
any other way to solve the problem beside reinstalling the whole thing?

pls help...thanks...

regards
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