At 7:26 AM +0100 7/13/05, Paul Howarth wrote: >On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:05 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Tony Nelson wrote: >> >> >At 2:08 PM -0500 7/12/05, Mike McCarty wrote: >> > >> > >> [with regards to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness] >> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>So is mine, and attempts to edit that file fail. >> >> >> >> >> > >> >Works here. Were you root? Do you really mean "edit" or did you: >> > >> > # cat 59 >/proc/sys/vm/swappiness >> > >> >I get permission denied as a normal user, while the value sticks if I'm >> >root. The sign that the patch is in the kernel is that changes don't >> >stick. So I suppose it never made it in. >> > >> > >> I was logged in as myself, with su. I used an editor which read it fine. >> Attempts to save the edit failed with access denied. I did not try a cat. > >/proc files aren't regular files and editing them with a regular editor >may not work. > >Neither would the "cat" command above, unless there was a file called >"59" in the current directory. > >What was probably meant was: ># echo 59 /proc/sys/vm/swappiness Uhh, right. That's about what I really did, followed by a cat to see the result. Sorry for the confusion. (Comes from having separate machines for email and Linux, and, well, laziness.) ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
