History feature not working on ubuntu 10.10 notebook edition terminal

Tinkster · 04-04-2011, 07:29 PM

Apart from the funky

Code:

if [ -f  ~/.bashsrc ]; then
        ~/.bahsrc
fi

at the very top I can't see anything wrong with it.

Can you please add

Code:

set +x

to the very TOP of ~/.bashrc temporarily, and try to
source it again?

Code:

. ~/.bashrc

and post the output?

Cheers,
Tink

mansour · 04-04-2011, 08:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tinkster

Apart from the funky

Code:

if [ -f  ~/.bashsrc ]; then
        ~/.bahsrc
fi

at the very top I can't see anything wrong with it.

Can you please add

Code:

set +x

to the very TOP of ~/.bashrc temporarily, and try to
source it again?

Code:

. ~/.bashrc

and post the output?

Cheers,
Tink

Sorry Actually this was my mistake. The actual file doesn't have this:

Code:

if [ -f  ~/.bashsrc ]; then
        ~/.bahsrc
fi

OK I added set +x to the very TOP of ~/.bashrc,

and this is the result.

mansour@ubuntu-notebook:~$ . ~/.bashrc
mansour@ubuntu-notebook:~$ env | grep -i hist
PROMPT_COMMAND=history -a
mansour@ubuntu-notebook:~$

mansour

Tinkster · 04-04-2011, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mansour

Sorry Actually this was my mistake. The actual file doesn't have this:

Code:

if [ -f  ~/.bashsrc ]; then
        ~/.bahsrc
fi

OK I added set +x to the very TOP of ~/.bashrc,

and this is the result.

mansour@ubuntu-notebook:~$ . ~/.bashrc
mansour@ubuntu-notebook:~$ env | grep -i hist
PROMPT_COMMAND=history -a
mansour@ubuntu-notebook:~$

mansour

Most puzzling - please try:

Code:

env | grep SHELL

and

Code:

bash ~/.bashrc

Cheers,
Tink

mansour · 04-04-2011, 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tinkster

Most puzzling - please try:

Code:

env | grep SHELL

and

Code:

bash ~/.bashrc

Cheers,
Tink

mansour@ubuntu-notebook:~$ env | grep SHELL
SHELL=/bin/bash
mansour@ubuntu-notebook:~$ bash ~/.bashrc
/home/mansour/.bashrc: line 9: return: can only `return' from a function or sourced script
mansour@ubuntu-notebook:~$

mansour

2ck · 04-05-2011, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mansour

How would I "Set the HISTFILE environment variable to ~/.bash_history"?
Please be more specific. what is the command to do that?

mansour

From the bash manpage:

Quote:

HISTFILE
The name of the file in which command history is saved (see HISTORY below). The default value is ~/.bash_history. If unset, the command history is not saved when an interactive shell exits.

In your .bashrc try:

Code:

export HISTFILE=~/.bash_history

Possibly, you don't have the variable set at all. And read the bash manpage--under the heading "History" at least.

note: env doesn't reflect all variables defined within your current shell (that's not what it's for anyway).

mansour · 04-05-2011, 06:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2ck

From the bash manpage:

In your .bashrc try:

Code:

export HISTFILE=~/.bash_history

Possibly, you don't have the variable set at all. And read the bash manpage--under the heading "History" at least.

note: env doesn't reflect all variables defined within your current shell (that's not what it's for anyway).

Hello 2ck:

In your .bashrc try:

Code:

export HISTFILE=~/.bash_history

OK, I added export HISTFILE=~/.bash_history
to the end of my .bashrc file.

No changes has yet been achieved.

mansour

Tinkster · 04-06-2011, 04:21 PM

Have you ever tried logging in on a console? Bypassing the
gui all together? I'm totally at loss as to what might be
going on in your install ...

Cheers,
Tink

mansour · 04-06-2011, 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tinkster

Have you ever tried logging in on a console? Bypassing the
gui all together? I'm totally at loss as to what might be
going on in your install ...

Cheers,
Tink

I actually have installed LTS 10.04 Server on a desktop machine in my home. That's totally a command line install, no GUI there. and I have several services on it, like DHCP, DNS, Apache, SSH,...
But This is a notebook computer and Linux 10.10 ubuntu notebook edition, and is therefore a GUI. I am taking Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop in my school a spart of an IT support course, and this little notebook is a tool to learn that course, as part of my school credit study. My teacher has accepted me to use a 10.10 notebook, instead of a VirtualBox installation of Ubuntu desktop 10.04 lucid.

Sorry, but did I tell you that I have several partitions on this machine, and various file systems, and would that matter to our dicussion of history feature not working?
This is how I configured various partitions on my machine. This was our Lab 1 assignment in this course.

Code:

/boot         100 MB        Ext2

/root)        8 GB          Ext3

/var          4 GB          Ext2

/srv          4 GB          Ext3

/usr          4 GB          Ext2

/tmp          5 GB          Ext2

Swap space    6 GB          N/A

/home         Remaining space    Ext3

mansour