Bug#2715: /usr/bin/nice -- won't work with less than 5

["Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

Package: shellutils
Maintainer: David P. Boswell <daveb@tau.space.thiokol.com>
Version: 1.12-5


/usr/bin/nice will not work for me if I try a value less than 5...

callandor:62 - /tmp> /usr/bin/nice -n 1 ls
/usr/bin/nice: cannot set priority: Permission denied
callandor:63 - /tmp> /usr/bin/nice -n 2 ls
/usr/bin/nice: cannot set priority: Permission denied
callandor:64 - /tmp> /usr/bin/nice -n 3 ls
/usr/bin/nice: cannot set priority: Permission denied
callandor:65 - /tmp> /usr/bin/nice -n 4 ls
/usr/bin/nice: cannot set priority: Permission denied
callandor:66 - /tmp> /usr/bin/nice -n 5 ls
713.gdbt             727.gdbt             esrv33858-callandor  sanity.compile
721.gdbt             bcwhite              gdbtsave.lock        test.dbf
callandor:67 - /tmp> /usr/bin/nice -n 6 ls
713.gdbt             727.gdbt             esrv33858-callandor  sanity.compile
721.gdbt             bcwhite              gdbtsave.lock        test.dbf
callandor:68 - /tmp>


It doesn't matter whether I do this from 'tcsh' or 'bash'.  Tcsh's built-in
'nice' commands works fine.

                                        Brian
                               ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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