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- From: jhp@photon.uucp (Jim Patterson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Help Please Setting User Default Job Priorities
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.034347.3585@photon.uucp>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 03:43:47 GMT
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- James Vincent (vincent@orville.psu.edu) wrote:
- : One user on an SGI system I use elsewhere is given job priority 24 for all
- : jobs submitted, while everyone else is given priority 20, which is the
- : default. Would someone be kind enough to answer a few questions about this?
- :
- : 1. Can a priority default be set permanently for one user, which is different
- : from all other users priorities?
-
- Yes
-
- : 2. How is 1. done?
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- The user name field has an entry pri=# in it, see the login manual
- page for details.
-
- : 3. If 1. is possible how can the default be restored?
-
- Just remove the pri entry from the password file.
-
- Jim
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