Re: root doesn't have permission to edit file? tcp_fin_timeout

beardo265@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Here's the problem though. I've been told through several resources
to change this file using

echo 30 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout

And, I was able to do this on another fedora machine (I believe,
however, that machine was FC3)

Is there possibly some other configuration which might be blocking me
from doing this?

On Mar 29, 8:26 pm, Tommy Reynolds <Tommy.Reyno...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:46:46 -0700, beardo265 wrote:

Woops.. forgot to mention that. My brain isn't working 100% today.
Anyway, the file's permissions are read only (-r--r--r--) but root also
does not seem to be able to change the permissions.

Entries in the /proc file system are not implemented as are normal files.
Not being files, they really don't have alterable permissions. A /proc
entry with 0444 permissions probably doesn't even have a write method
implemented.

HTH


On my RHEL5 I see -rw-r--r-- as permissions
.

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