Have you set the default shell for root to bash or is it still dash? Am Freitag, 30. Oktober 2015 19:03:34 UTC+1 schrieb tuxracer: > > Hello, > > Every time I use up and down arrow keys to get previously issued command, > I get garbage "l^&($" I edited .bashrc in /root and added > > HISTFILE=$HOME/.bash_history > HISTFILESIZE=500 > HISTSIZE=500 > > but it failed. How do I enable .bash_history in Void Linux? >