[mythtv-users] Re: SUID Root

Matthew Phillips mythtv at mattp.name
Tue Mar 29 10:12:59 UTC 2005


On 29/03/2005, at 2:38 AM, Jon Dye wrote:
> Dan Wilga wrote:
>> At 2:18 PM +1030 3/26/05, Matthew Phillips wrote:
>>> On 26/03/2005, at 12:44 PM, Mario L wrote:
>>>
>>>> No i haven't, but wouldn't I have to do that each time I launched 
>>>> myth?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, but it's not hard to do:
>>>
>>>   sudo /usr/bin/renice -5 `ps -e | grep mythfrontend | cut -f1 -d" "`
>>>
>>> You can put that in a script that runs the frontend.
>
> Or a simpler version:
>
> sudo /usr/bin/renice -5 `pgrep mythfrontend`

Cool, I'm getting some Unix lessons for free. And there I was thinking 
what a clever command line hacker I am... :/

Matthew.



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