I wanted my bash history and vim settings to stay from session to session.  So I moved my .bash_history and .viminfo from /root/ to /boot/config.  I then create a link to them (with ln -s) to /root/ in my go script.

 

This was working just fine for a while.  I just noticed within the last couple of weeks that this no longer works.  I noticed this when I received the message "E138: Can't write viminfo file /root/.viminfo!" when exiting vim.  Thinking it strange, I tried to see if my .bash_history was being updated.  It also wasn't being written to.

 

I'm a bit confused as if I do

# echo "test" >> /root/.bash_history

I get no errors and I can write to the file perfectly well.

 

Can someone shed light on why this is happening all of a sudden?  I was running rc15a when this this issue occurred.  I have since upgraded to 5.0 hoping it would solve the issue.  It hasn't

 

Can I provide any more info to shed light on the issue?

 

Thanks a ton!

Check permissions. Use "ls -l"

Thanks.  Here are the permissions in the /root/ folder

root@Tower:~# ls -al
total 24
drwx--x---  3 root root    0 2013-10-24 22:09 ./
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root    0 2010-05-12 02:38 ../
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   26 2013-10-24 22:09 .bash_history -> /boot/config/.bash_history*
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   70 2013-10-24 22:09 .bash_profile
-rw-rw-rw-  1 root root   19 2013-10-24 22:09 .inputrc
drwxrwxrwx  3 root root    0 2013-10-31 22:33 .mc/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   21 2013-10-24 22:09 .viminfo -> /boot/confic/.viminfo
-rw-rw-rw-  1 root root   22 2013-10-24 22:09 .vimrc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  171 2013-08-28 13:48 mdcmd*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 7565 2013-08-28 13:48 mkmbr*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   25 2013-08-28 13:48 powerdown -> /usr/local/sbin/powerdown
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   18 2013-08-28 13:48 samba -> /etc/rc.d/rc.samba*
root@Tower:~# 

I'm specifically looking at these two files.

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   26 2013-10-24 22:09 .bash_history -> /boot/config/.bash_history*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   21 2013-10-24 22:09 .viminfo -> /boot/confic/.viminfo

 

For reference, this is where the files are stored:

root@Tower:/boot/config# ls -al          
total 2112
drwxrwxrwx  4 root root 65536 2013-10-23 00:48 ./
drwxrwxrwx 11 root root 16384 2013-10-31 08:10 ../
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root  8671 2013-10-31 22:56 .bash_history*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root  4698 2013-10-24 22:09 .viminfo*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root   256 2013-02-09 12:51 Plus.key*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root  2216 2013-07-10 07:55 disk.cfg*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root   101 2013-03-24 08:04 flash.cfg*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root   884 2013-09-08 23:31 go*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root   300 2013-10-12 23:00 ident.cfg*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root    73 2013-01-11 12:54 network.cfg*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root   892 2013-05-06 22:37 passwd*
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 65536 2013-05-14 22:03 plugins/
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root 24576 2013-10-24 22:05 secrets.tdb*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root   705 2013-05-06 22:37 shadow*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root   364 2013-10-12 23:00 share.cfg*
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 65536 2013-08-01 20:35 shares/
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root   332 2013-05-06 22:37 smbpasswd*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root  4096 2013-10-24 22:08 super.dat*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root     4 2013-10-12 23:01 vsftpd.user_list*

 

I don't know if anything is wrong with permissions.  My worry is, everything WAS working and then at some point, it stopped   And I have no idea what changed in the middle.

 

Is it something to do with the files being linked?

 

Thanks a ton!