Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!svin02!eba!ebe!wjw From: wjw@ebe.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: process priorities (problem?) Message-ID: <1105@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl> Date: 12 Mar 91 23:18:34 GMT References: <18030@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@eb.ele.tue.nl (The News system) Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 34 In article fridman@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (fridman) writes: =>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 complained about this feature to this forum and HPollo, and indeed was their remark: (about half a year ago) It not a bug, it's a feature. Sadly that is again the story which I read about Apollo's being a single user station. (PC are a lot cheaper, SUN's are cheaper and faster, .... ) Another sadening 'finding' is that the manual says something which is totally different from reality. I'm I wrong to asume that most of the BSD4.3 stuff was just compiled of the tape. And if it didn't work it would get hacked until it sort of did. ( I know I'm being a pig to all those hard working engineers at Apollo, I do like Apollo's. Only once in a while I'm happy that the windows don't open far enough to fit a system-case.) sob, sob, sob Willem Jan Withagen Eindhoven University of Technology DomainName: wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl Digital Systems Group, Room EH 10.10 P.O. 513 Tel: +31-40-473401 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands