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[Stéphane Aulery <lkppo@xxxxxxx>]

Have you read renice.1 that have more information ? I think that add a
reference to talking about /etc/security/limits.conf is a good idea.

** Summary changed:

- Manpage claims non-root user cannot decrease niceness
+ nice.1, renice.1 and nice.info : claims non-root user cannot decrease niceness

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Title:
  nice.1, renice.1 and nice.info : claims non-root user cannot decrease
  niceness

Status in coreutils package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: manpages

  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

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