[sudo-users] "nice sudo foo": "foo" does not inherits niceness
thomas
thomas.bsd at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 12:36:47 EDT 2008
2008/8/18 Russell Van Tassell <russell+sudo-users at loosenut.com>:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 08:57:00AM -0700, Russell Van Tassell wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 05:19:12PM +0200, thomas wrote:
>> > $ (nice sudo sleep 5 &); ps -al | egrep '(^F|sleep)'
>> > F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
>> > 4 S 0 15823 1 0 80 0 - 754 - pts/5 00:00:00 sleep
>> >
>> > Why doesn't "sleep" have a niceness of 10?
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > $ sudo -V
>> > Sudo version 1.6.9p17
>>
>> [What's the behavior of "nice" outside of sudo?]
$ (nice sleep 5 &); ps -al | egrep '(^F|sleep)'
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
0 R 1000 11073 1 0 90 10 - 57 - pts/9 00:00:00 sleep
=> It works (with 10 as default value).
I also tried with "nice -n a_value" but it doesn't help.
Here I am on a Debian/Lenny box, not a *BSD one. Could another linux
user try the above command (with sudo) to see if he's experiencing the
same problem? Thanks a lot.
++
Thomas
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