Bill, OK, I have now successfully entered the command lines and rebooted. Checked shmmax and it is now 14680064. Yay !
Thanks for helping me Bill, much appreciated ! 73, Bob K6UJ > On Jun 5, 2019, at 9:40 AM, Bill Somerville <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 05/06/2019 17:33, Robert Harmon wrote: >> The sysctl.conf folder is on my desktop and I tried to enter the command >> lines into terminal but when I hit the enter key after entering a line I get >> the word "password" and I can't go any farther. So then I retried by >> entering the lines in one continuous string with a space between lines and >> rebooted but no luck. I am not familiar with entering commands into >> terminal. I think I must not be entering the commands properly. >> > Bob, > > when the system prompts with Password: you must enter your user password. The > sudo command runs another command with root (administrator) privileges, you > must confirm with your password which will allow you to run further sudo > commands from that terminal session for a few minutes without further > confirmation. > > 73 > Bill > G4WJS. > > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
