[rhn-users] Be aware of 'renice' bug

[Administrator - Roy A. Crabtree - roy.crabtree@ncat.edu - 336-334-7856 x2249]

A ticket has been filed already, but doe snot seem destined to be fixed
with alacrity.
if you use 'renice' the curent argument structure will interpret the
standard syntax incorrectly:

  renice -n N -p P

gets run as if it were:

    renice N -p _

where '-n' becomes the nice value, and N become a process ID.

If you then use a nice value of N from 1 to 19, you will RESET
the priority of system level PIDs 1-19 DOWN in value (slower),
a severe performance, reliability and security problem.

I entered it as such, but it was downgraded to a documentation fix
(normal) instead, which will NOT remove the actual problem.

Look it up and reverify that it is so on your version; FC4 AS has this
problem.

Cheers.
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