Re: User cannot set process priority nice --10 despite changes in limits.conf

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Subject: Re: User cannot set process priority nice --10 despite changes in limits.conf
From: Jonathan Matthews <contact@jpluscplusm.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 20:43:06 +0100
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On 17 April 2011 11:21, Sebastian Tarach <starach@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to allow user hlds to be able to start game server daemon with
> higher priority. Even though I've added fallowing line in
> /etc/security/limits.conf
>
> hlds             -       nice            -20
>
> I'm still getting
>
> starach@debian:/> nice --5 cat logfile
> nice: cannot set niceness: Permission denied
>
> What could I have done wrong?

Doesn't look to me like you're running the command as the user you
specified in limits.conf.

Jonathan
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