On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 12:36 AM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 09:05:59PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > > From: Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> > > Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 9:04 PM > > Subject: Re: Clearing RAM Caches > > To: Tixy <t...@yxit.co.uk> > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 4:12 AM Tixy <t...@yxit.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > 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 'echo 1' command as the superuser. > > > > > > > > Thanks for the clarification. `echo 1 > sudo /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches` > > seems to work just fine. > > This is... surprising. If I were you, I'd look around in the current > directory whether there's a file named `sudo' with an "1" in it. > > You are correct I did have a file named sudo with "1 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" in it.
It looks like `sudo sh -c "/usr/bin/echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"` is the winner. > Cheers > -- > t > -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
