renice question

mattjohndrow

which one gives a higher priority- -20 or +20 for renice?

also, i get this type of message alot: sudo: /var/run/sudo writable by non-owner (040777), should be mode 0700



Passwordostdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory



but it seems to do the command i gave it

torifile

renice -20 is highest priority. Negative numbers are higher priorities with -20 the highest.

torifile

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Originally posted by mattjohndrow

which one gives a higher priority- -20 or +20 for renice?

also, i get this type of message alot: sudo: /var/run/sudo writable by non-owner (040777), should be mode 0700



Password: postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory



but it seems to do the command i gave it

What's the command? Are you sending mail?

thuh freak

an easy way to remember priorities, and niceness, is a very kind process (ie, high nive value) lets all the other processes take away its processor time. a mean process (ie, low nice value) tries to horde the processor all to itself, selfishly.



you can try fixing permissions, to get rid of that first message. failing that, manually chmod the directory, like this:

sudo chmod 0700 /var/run/sudo



the second one looks like postfix or sendmail (or whatever your mail server is?) is not installed correctly, or a config file is pointing to the wrong (and non existant) place.