From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 24 21: 2: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E64D815063 for ; Mon, 24 May 1999 21:02:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16744; Tue, 25 May 1999 13:31:42 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199905250354.XAA05538@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 13:31:42 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: cjclark@home.com Subject: Re: SETI@home has teams now! Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, dpilgrim@uswest.net, crh@outpost.co.nz Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 25-May-99 Crist J. Clark wrote: > Is there a reason not to use setiathome's '-nice' switch and just nice > it to a low priority? I think that would be good enough for most > people. Also, I believe idpro requires root privileges; nice does > not. I'd rather not use root when I don't need to. I run it like this -> idprio ${seti_nice} su -m ${seti_user} -c \ "(cd ${seti_wrkdir}/${i} && exec ${PREFIX}/bin/setiathome -email 2>&1 >/dev/null &)" So it still runs as nobody. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message