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maxximuscool	2010-09-04 , 09:09
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Originally Posted by aeol

You can't get root privileges inside the script: it is very insecure. You should write instead
Code:
import os
os.system('echo 78 > /abc/abc/bca')
or even better
Code:
open('/abc/abc/bca', 'w').write('78')
and run this script with root privileges

I've tried that, I'm trying to echo to swappiness

os.system('echo 60> /proc/sys/vm/swappiness')

You can't write to a file that only root can access.
but result is not working via python. But it working via xterminal python as root.

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Last edited by maxximuscool; 2010-09-04 at 09:12.

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