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Subject: kern/5495: renice value -u username causes instant reboot
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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!



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