tag 20111 notabug close 20111 stop coreutils nice docs don't mention the root user. renice is implemented by util-linux so CCing there.
thanks, Pádraig. On 15/03/15 18:32, Stéphane Aulery wrote: > Hello, > > I had you followed a bug reported by a Ubuntu user [1] about "nice value" > change: > > According to "man nice" and "info coreutils nice", it is > not possible for a non-root user to decrease the niceness > of a process (even if they were the ones that increased the > niceness). However this not the case in Ubuntu 9.04, as > evidenced by the fact that the attached script "stopfirefox" > can reduce the niceness back to 0 when firefox is unminimized. > The manpage and infopage should be modified in light of this, > and should also say where this was configured. > > According to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_%28Unix%29#cite_note-0 This > can be configured in /etc/security/limits.conf, however this > does not seem to have any uncommented lines, so presumably > Ubuntu configured this somewhere else. > > ProblemType: Bug > Architecture: amd64 > > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 > NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx > PackageArchitecture: all > ProcEnviron: > SHELL=/bin/bash > PATH=(custom, user) > LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 > Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic x86_64 > > I think that add a reference to talk about /etc/security/limits.conf is > a good idea. > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/468518 > > Regards, >
