On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 09:05:59PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
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> 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>
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> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 4:12 AM Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> >
> 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
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