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From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: nice
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions)
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 16:25:49 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: ahill@interconnect.com.au
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970528140130.4231A-100000@tulpi.interconnect.com.au> from Anthony Hill at "May 28, 97 02:04:39 pm"
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> On Tue, 27 May 1997, Wayne Baety wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Is there a way to have all of a users programs automatically run at a
> > certain nice level?
> 
> I havent tried this but maybe you could nice the shell the user is 
> dropped into at login time by changing his passwd file. ie set his shell 
> to /usr/bin/nice -5 /usr/bin/sh

Hm.  Change his/her shell to an executable script, which contains this line.
In your way, you get: "/usr/bin/nice -5 /usr/bin/sh": no shell - or
something like this
But:
what about this one:
in /etc/profile (or in /etc/csh.login) make a big case (switch) statement,
eg:
case "$LOGNAME" in 	# maybe use "$USER"
	user1withLowPrio|user2withLowPrio|...)	# the users, who need lower priority
		renice <priority> -p $$
		;;
	*)	# anybody else
		: nothing, only for convenience
		;;
	esac

That's it.

Gabor

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