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From: awhitton@bwdla30.bnr.ca (Alan Whitton @ BNR)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Renice and ppri, only for those that are authorised??
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Date: 4 Oct 90 17:02:43 GMT
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In article <836@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl>, wjw@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan
Withagen) writes:
|> Hi ya'll
|> 
|> I know that it's not nice to keep hammering (or would the word be
bashing)
|> Apollo, BUT!
|> 
|> Did anybody read the manual page for /etc/renice. Well it states
that
|> a normal user can only change it's 'own' priorities, and the
SuperUser
|> can change any. 
|> As to be expect: It is not true.

Well we found this one out after we found that the RGYD process which 
usually hogs CPUs suddenly being niced way down. The fix that the
hot line gave me was "... simply change the ACLs so only root can 
execute it...", JEEZ!

An APR has been submitted on this  APR DC94E  (although I don't know
what it is now in the HP world...).

Cheers,
Alan Whitton

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