On 18/01/2011 16:25, Greg Woods wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 15:01 +0000, Simon Andrews wrote: > >> I would if I could! >> >> sudo echo 7> /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI >> -bash: /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI: Permission denied > > This is a classic by now. The problem is that the redirection occurs in > your shell, before sudo is invoked. That is why you are getting the > permission error. Something like this might work better: > > $ sudo "echo 7> /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI"
Good catch! That was exactly it. I'll add that to my list of linux oddities, alongside grepping for a > symbol in a file :-) Thanks Simon. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
