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From: fridman@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (fridman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: process priorities (problem?)
Message-ID: <FRIDMAN.91Mar8141257@aa.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Date: 8 Mar 91 20:12:56 GMT
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In article <18030@milton.u.washington.edu> etb@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Bushnell) writes:


>   An ordinary, unprivileged user wasn't happy
>   with the priority of his batch job, which he
>   had started with /usr/bin/nohup. So he used
>   /etc/renice to change his priority to -20,
>   the highest priority in BSD unix. Only the
>   superuser can do this, right? Apparently not.

I just tried it.  One CAN increase the priority without being root.

	RF.