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Upstream bug report: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20111
** Also affects: coreutils
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/468518
Title:
nice.1, renice.1 and nice.info : claims non-root user cannot decrease
niceness
Status in The Gnu Core Utilities:
New
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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