From 692a4ae608e2b376568bbadbfb37c9a9194b4b4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: steveokard <steveokard@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 17:46:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] checks for root, appends to end of file

---
 scripts/{swapcaps.sh => escaps.sh} |  0
 scripts/swappiness.sh              | 16 +++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 rename scripts/{swapcaps.sh => escaps.sh} (100%)

diff --git a/scripts/swapcaps.sh b/scripts/escaps.sh
similarity index 100%
rename from scripts/swapcaps.sh
rename to scripts/escaps.sh
diff --git a/scripts/swappiness.sh b/scripts/swappiness.sh
index d375a43..3187e09 100755
--- a/scripts/swappiness.sh
+++ b/scripts/swappiness.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-if [ $1 -n]
-then 
-	echo "Please provide a number to set swappiness value!" && exit 1
-else 
-	echo "vm.swappiness="$1
+if [ $(id -u) -ne 0 ]
+        then echo "Please run as root"
+        exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$1" ]
+then 
+	echo "Please provide a number to set swappiness value!" && exit 2
+else 
+	sudo echo "vm.swappiness="$1 >> /etc/sysctl.conf
+        sudo sysctl -p
 fi