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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Priority field in /etc/passwd??
Message-ID: <1990Sep20.112400.20416@virtech.uucp>
Date: 20 Sep 90 11:24:00 GMT
References: <4670@teal10.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <4670@teal10.UUCP> gulik@motcid.UUCP (Gregory Gulik) writes:
>
>I've seen several mentions of an undocemented priority field
>in the /etc/passwd in System V.
>
>Does anyone have any information about this?

If the GCOS field starts with "pri=number" the login shell is started with
number as it's nice value.  The higher the number the lower the priority
of the process.  You can give a negative number to give the process a 
higher priority.

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