On 10/2/2013 8:23 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:59:15AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> This will really throw you for a loop. Open a shell window and execute >> >> ~$ sudo echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > > She'll probably get 'Permission denied', you need elevated permissions > for the writing process, which in this case is the outer shell. Try > instead > > $ sudo sh -c "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"
Thanks for the tip Jonathan. I never use sudo, so I was winging it a bit. And I wasn't about to instruct her to login as root or su to root... -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
