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
Paul.
I think you mean
# echo 59 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
which is what I took him to mean, as well.
I don't understand why echo should be able to write a file that
an editor cannot.
Mike
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