On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 02:34 +0000, Ben Collins wrote: > or it. > > Can you provide a sample program that shows the problem?
I tried $ echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches bash: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches: Permission denied $ sudo chmod 0666 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches $ echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted $ sudo chmod 0666 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches $ ls -ld /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2006-11-16 08:52 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches $ ls -ld /proc/sys/vm dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-11-16 08:52 /proc/sys/vm $ echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted $ So the mode does not seem to be sufficient :(. -Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>. -- /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches should be able to be configured to allow regular user writes https://launchpad.net/bugs/71575 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
