[sudo-users] "nice sudo foo": "foo" does not inherits niceness

[Russell Van Tassell]

(eek, sorry for the previous munged post)

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?]

To be clear, you might want to give "nice" an actual number... something
like "nice +10" or "nice -n +10" depending on implementation (and note
that many shells will override the system binary if you don't specify an
absolute path).

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Russell M. Van Tassell
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