Issue #13907 has been updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans). Assignee set to keiju (Keiju Ishitsuka) Status changed from Open to Assigned I'm not sure if this is a bug or not. However, considering that irb ignores permission issues on `.irbrc` (not intentionally I think), I suppose it makes sense to also ignore permission issues on the history file. I added a pull request in case the IRB maintainers want to make this change: https://github.com/ruby/irb/pull/19. ---------------------------------------- Bug #13907: Operation not permitted (Errno::EPERM) when adjusting .irbrc_history file permissions https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13907#change-78823 * Author: heaven (Alexander S.) * Status: Assigned * Priority: Normal * Assignee: keiju (Keiju Ishitsuka) * Target version: * ruby -v: ruby 2.3.3p222 (2016-11-21 revision 56859) [x86_64-linux] * Backport: 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- This is happening every time I close irb on the server: ``` $ bin/rails console Loading staging environment (Rails 5.1.3) 2.3.0 :001 > IRB.conf[:SAVE_HISTORY] => 100 2.3.0 :002 > IRB.conf[:HISTORY_FILE] => nil 2.3.0 :003 > IRB.rc_file("_history") => "/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.3/.irbrc_history" 2.3.0 :004 > exit /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.3/lib/ruby/2.3.0/irb/ext/save-history.rb:91:in `chmod': Operation not permitted @ chmod_internal - /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.3/.irbrc_history (Errno::EPERM) from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.3/lib/ruby/2.3.0/irb/ext/save-history.rb:91:in `save_history' from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.3/lib/ruby/2.3.0/irb/ext/save-history.rb:64:in `block in extended' from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.3/lib/ruby/2.3.0/irb.rb:404:in `block in irb_at_exit' from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.3/lib/ruby/2.3.0/irb.rb:404:in `each' from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.3/lib/ruby/2.3.0/irb.rb:404:in `irb_at_exit' from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.3/lib/ruby/2.3.0/irb.rb:398:in `start' from /var/www/crm.wegohealth.com/shared/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.1.3/lib/rails/commands/console/console_command.rb:62:in `start' from /var/www/crm.wegohealth.com/shared/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.1.3/lib/rails/commands/console/console_command.rb:17:in `start' from /var/www/crm.wegohealth.com/shared/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.1.3/lib/rails/commands/console/console_command.rb:85:in `perform' from /var/www/crm.wegohealth.com/shared/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/thor-0.20.0/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in `run' from /var/www/crm.wegohealth.com/shared/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/thor-0.20.0/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `invoke_command' from /var/www/crm.wegohealth.com/shared/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/thor-0.20.0/lib/thor.rb:387:in `dispatch' from /var/www/crm.wegohealth.com/shared/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.1.3/lib/rails/command/base.rb:63:in `perform' from /var/www/crm.wegohealth.com/shared/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.1.3/lib/rails/command.rb:44:in `invoke' from /var/www/crm.wegohealth.com/shared/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.1.3/lib/rails/commands.rb:16:in `<top (required)>' from bin/rails:10:in `require' from bin/rails:10:in `<main>' ``` IRB is trying to adjust file permissions `File.chmod(0600, history_file)` which isn't possible because the file owner is root:rvm. I am not sure if this is really an IRB bug or not, but perhaps it should check the owner first. ``` $ ls -la /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.3/ total 36 drwxrwsr-x 6 root rvm 4096 Sep 15 11:46 . drwxrwsr-x 4 root rvm 4096 Aug 14 12:05 .. drwxrwsr-x 2 root rvm 4096 Aug 14 12:05 bin -rw-rw-r-- 1 root rvm 7954 Aug 14 12:05 config drwxrwsr-x 3 root rvm 4096 Aug 14 12:05 include -rwxrwxr-x 1 root rvm 406 Aug 14 12:05 .irbrc -rw-rw-r-- 1 root rvm 0 Sep 15 12:28 .irbrc_history drwxrwsr-x 4 root rvm 4096 Aug 14 12:05 lib drwxrwsr-x 3 root rvm 4096 Aug 14 12:05 share ``` -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: <mailto:ruby-core-request / ruby-lang.org?subject=unsubscribe> <http://lists.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/ruby-core>