Unable to modify /proc files in ubuntu?

[Noah Dain]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 05:34:25 +0000 (UTC), Pete Shinners
<pete at shinners.org> wrote:
> I've got some instructions to modify one of the files under the proc tree.
> 
>    echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout
> 
> How is this possible under Ubuntu? I've tries a few styles of sudo command, but
> nothing will work. Under debian I would have just done this as root. What is the
> ubuntu way?
> 
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same thing happens here.

try: sudo -s <enter> and then the echo command.  this will start a
shell under root, and then any subsequent commands are run as root. 
This works for me.  To get out, just exit out of the 'root' shell.

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