On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 09:05:59PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 9:04 PM > Subject: Re: Clearing RAM Caches > To: Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> > > > > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 4:12 AM Tixy <tixy@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. Cheers -- t
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