~/.bash_history owned by root

[Jim Tarvid]

Binary package hint: bash

I changed it to match .bash_profile, .bash_logout and .bashrc

tarvid@venus:~/couchdb/apache-couchdb-0.9.1$ ls -la ~/.bash*
-rw-r--r-- 1 tarvid tarvid 1062 2009-06-17 16:23 /home/tarvid/.bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 tarvid tarvid 220 2009-06-17 13:59 /home/tarvid/.bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 tarvid tarvid 74 2009-08-09 18:39 /home/tarvid/.bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 tarvid tarvid 3115 2009-06-17 13:59 /home/tarvid/.bashrc

It does not contain recent bash history

After changing ownership, it does contain bash history.

[sam tygier (samtygier)]

i am guessing that you can achieve this by running bash as root, but with $HOME still set to /home/tarvid
eg if you used $sudo bash

sam@oberon:~$ sudo -i
root@oberon:~# echo $HOME
/root
root@oberon:~# logout
sam@oberon:~$ sudo -s
root@oberon:~# echo $HOME
/home/sam
root@oberon:~# exit
sam@oberon:~$ sudo bash
root@oberon:~# echo $HOME
/home/sam

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

the guess in comment #1 is correct. closing