Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 19:12:14 -0400 From: Rocco Caputo <troc@netrus.net> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting priority Message-ID: <20010916191214.C1012@eyrie.homenet> In-Reply-To: <20010916135907.HEVY9437.fepZ.post.tele.dk@there>; from mekanix@privat.dk on Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 04:01:19PM %2B0200 References: <20010916135907.HEVY9437.fepZ.post.tele.dk@there>
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On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 04:01:19PM +0200, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > Is there some way to get the various mediaplayers running at a higher > priority without having to login as superuser and renicing the process? > > Bjarne I use sudo to invoke (as root) a script like this: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/sbin/rtprio 16 /usr/bin/su troc -c /usr/X11R6/bin/xmms ... which runs xmms at realtime priority, but as me, not root. It assumes a specific login ID, which probably isn't a big deal. Make sure the script's permissions are locked tight. -- Rocco Caputo / troc@netrus.net / poe.perl.org / poe.sourceforge.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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