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- From: scott@natinst.com (Scott A. Taylor)
- Subject: Re: Few Questions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.175344.18517@natinst.com>
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux
- Summary: nice and fsck -y
- Keywords: nice, fsck
- Sender: Scott Taylor (scott@natinst.com)
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- Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
- References: <1992Aug17.030814.18259@utstat.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:53:44 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- In article <1992Aug17.030814.18259@utstat.uucp> rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student)) writes:
- >Hi and kudos to all Linuxers!
- >I have few questions regarding Linux and lots of thanks
- >for it (system).
- >1) Why can't I use *effectivelly* setterm as regular user?
- >I've set it suid!
-
- Dunno. It works fine for me (0.96c pl 2).
-
- >2) (did ask it before but no answer...) Why does (re)nice
- >in top seem to work au reverse (ie renicing the process
- >-19 seemes to speed it up, +14 slows it a lot)
-
- This is standard behavior for nice. Lower values have higher priority, higher
- values have lower priority. Sort of counter-intuitive, but I believe this
- scheme follows the method used by the scheduler to prioritize processes. This
- isn't unique to Linux; SunOS and AIX nice are similar.
-
- >3)What do the options to fsck mean? I couldn't find a man
- >page for it and one on *this* (university) system is
- >inapropiate.
-
- I don't know. I haven't played with fsck options much, and I don't have my
- Linux box nearby to look and see what's available. I do know that -y means
- fix everything without asking any questions (in other words, answer "yes"
- to all of fsck's questions when it tries to fix the filesystem). This is
- usually a pretty safe option to use.
-
- > My system is 0.96cpl2 with new setterm and ps-0.96c1
- > package.
- >
- > Once again thanks!
- > Rafal
- >--
- >/|| Numbers exist only in our minds. There is no physical entity that
- > ||_is_ number 1. If there were, 1 would be in a place of honor in
- > || some great museum of science, and past it would file a steady
- >==== stream of mathematicians gazing at 1 in wonder and awe.
-
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