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I'm trying to follow these instructions to solve some issue with PyCharm. When I open sysctl.conf, I can reach the bottom but I can't write. I am greeted with the following Linux "feature":

boing
boing
boing

What can I do to append this file with this command fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288 and stop the boing boing boing? enter image description here

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Well, that's your editor that's making that noise, probably because you don't have write access to that file.

I'd suggest using sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf from the terminal. (Or if you're more familiar with vim, use vim instead of nano.)

/etc/sysctl.conf is only writeable by the root users (for obvious reasons). So you need to use 'sudo' to act as the root user (super user).

Marc Runkel
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