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Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 14:04:39 +1000 (EST)
From: Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au>
To: Wayne Baety <mrfoine@enteract.com>
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Subject: Re: nice
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On Tue, 27 May 1997, Wayne Baety wrote:

> 
> Is there a way to have all of a users programs automatically run at a
> certain nice level?

I havent tried this but maybe you could nice the shell the user is 
dropped into at login time by changing his passwd file. ie set his shell 
to /usr/bin/nice -5 /usr/bin/sh

Regards,