Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:43:29 -0600 (CST) From: john preisler <john@acetylene.vapornet.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: kern/5495: renice value -u username causes instant reboot Message-ID: <199801142143.PAA00448@argon.vapornet.net>
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>Number: 5495
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: renice value -u username causes instant reboot
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 15 00:51:40 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: John Preisler
>Organization:
disorganized
>Release: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Environment:
all the machines I have do it. p166 or p2 running freebsd-current
>Description:
according to renice(8) root should be able to adjust all the priorities of a single user via renice priority -u username. On all the machines I have, it causes an instantaneous reboot.
neither the value of priority nor the username seems to make a difference.
>How-To-Repeat:
renice -1 -u some.user.with.processes.running
>Fix:
Doc - it hurts when i do this!
Dont do that!
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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