"automatic" updates not working?

Thilo Six T.Six at gmx.de
Tue Sep 19 16:51:17 UTC 2006


Jeff wrote the following on 19.09.2006 04:12:
>> Does this work?
>> sudo echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling
>> Then perhaps restart networking
>>
> 
> It tells me "Permission denied"

You could open an root-shell first with:

$ sudo -i

then do:
# echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling

but before you do that check the content of "tcp_window_scaling" with:

$ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling

because here it set to zero per default.

bye Thilo
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