On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 07:24 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> The following two commands are equivalent:
>
> echo 1 > sudo /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>
> echo 1 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > sudo
>
> The file "sudo" will have "1 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" in it, because
> echo received two arguments. Red
On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 08:25:12AM +0100, Tixy wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-08-15 at 21:05 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> > >
> > Thanks for the clarification. `echo 1 > sudo /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches`
> > seems to work just fine.
>
> It doesn't, as Tomas pointed out it creates a file called 'sudo
On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 12:36 AM wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 09:05:59PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> > -- Forwarded message -
> > From: Timothy M Butterworth
> > Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 9:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: Clear
On Mon, 2022-08-15 at 21:05 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> >
> Thanks for the clarification. `echo 1 > sudo /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches`
> seems to work just fine.
It doesn't, as Tomas pointed out it creates a file called 'sudo' and
puts a '1' in it.
Output redirection done with a single '>'
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 09:05:59PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
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> From: Timothy M Butterworth
> Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 9:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Clearing RAM Caches
> To: Tixy
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at
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From: Timothy M Butterworth
Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: Clearing RAM Caches
To: Tixy
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 4:12 AM Tixy wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-08-15 at 02:50 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> > When I run `sudo echo
to...@tuxteam.de (12022-08-15):
> echo 1 | sudo dd of=/proc/sys/and-so-on
sudo sh -c "echo 1 > /proc/sys/and-so-on"
Or, in this particular case:
sudo systcl -w and-so-on=1
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 11:13:07AM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
> Timothy M Butterworth writes:
>
> > When I run `sudo echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches` I receive the following
> > error: bash: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches: Permission denied
>
> Unfortunately, it's your current shell and not root who
Timothy M Butterworth writes:
> When I run `sudo echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches` I receive the following
> error: bash: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches: Permission denied
Unfortunately, it's your current shell and not root who does the
redirection in this case so no permissions.
For a longer expla
On Mon, 2022-08-15 at 02:50 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> When I run `sudo echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches` I receive the following
> error: bash: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches: Permission denied
Because the output redirection occurs as your normal user, all you are
doing is executing the 'ec
When I run `sudo echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches` I receive the following
error: bash: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches: Permission denied
I have `%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL` in my /etc/sudoers file. All commands
should be allowed for group sudo.
ls -la /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
--w--- 1 root root 0
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