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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 19 December 2007 16:42, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Wednesday 2007-12-19 at 16:29 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, that's right. You need to be root to increase and
> > > even decrease I/O priority using program ionice.
> >
> > How odd. Thankfully, I'm Lord and Master of my machines!
>
> So am I, but I don't want to run apps as root.

Actually, that's not necessary. You can always become root for the 
purpose of exercising privileged operations and then go back to being 
a "regular" user to carry out everyday tasks.

E.g.:

  su root -c 'ionice -c 3 su nonRootUser -c "ultimate command"'

Or, if you're already root:

  ionice -c 3 su nonRootUser -c "ultimate command"


> --
> Cheers,
>         Carlos E. R.


Randall Schulz
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