giving a normal user rights to use negative nice values

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• Subject: giving a normal user rights to use negative nice values
• From: Chris Jones <jonesc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:08:52 +0000
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Hi,

Can someone point me towards a howto on what I need to do to allow a non-root 
user to run commands with negative nice values, eg.

> nice --adjustment=-10 ls
nice: cannot set niceness: Permission denied

what do I need to do to allow this ?

cheers Chris

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