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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 Dependencies: DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Package: manpages 3.15-1 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 SourcePackage: manpages Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic x86_64 ** Affects: coreutils (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug -- Manpage claims non-root user cannot decrease niceness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/468518 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to coreutils in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
