Re: Building computer

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

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