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Even with all combinations of sudo. It seems this attribute is read only, I have not seen this "permission denied" anywhere else.
Discussion continues in other thread, the one I started. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi....php?p=2565927 Edit-Clarification
I am not the original poster, and I was trying to use these commands to do something slightly different- power down usb ports, that have various peripherals attached. This turned out to be impossible to do.
Even with all combinations of sudo. It seems this attribute is read only, I have not seen this "permission denied" anywhere else.
Discussion continues in other thread, the one I started.
Edit-Clarification
I am not the original poster, and I was trying to use these commands to do something slightly different- power down usb ports, that have various peripherals attached. This turned out to be impossible to do.
You may have to do "echo -n 0 > file" instead of "echo 0 > file".
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