In article <1992Aug17.030814.18259@utstat.uucp> rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student)) writes:
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>Hi and kudos to all Linuxers!
>I have few questions regarding Linux and lots of thanks
>for it (system). 
>1) Why can't I use *effectivelly* setterm as regular user?
>I've set it suid!

Dunno. It works fine for me (0.96c pl 2).

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>2) (did ask it before but no answer...) Why does (re)nice
>in top seem to work au reverse (ie renicing the process
>-19 seemes to speed it up, +14 slows it a lot)

This is standard behavior for nice.  Lower values have higher priority, higher
values have lower priority.  Sort of counter-intuitive, but I believe this
scheme follows the method used by the scheduler to prioritize processes. This
isn't unique to Linux; SunOS and AIX nice are similar.

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>3)What do the options to fsck mean? I couldn't find a man
>page for it and one on *this* (university) system is
>inapropiate.

I don't know. I haven't played with fsck options much, and I don't have my
Linux box nearby to look and see what's available.  I do know that -y means
fix everything without asking any questions (in other words, answer "yes"
to all of fsck's questions when it tries to fix the filesystem). This is
usually a pretty safe option to use.

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> My system is 0.96cpl2 with new setterm and ps-0.96c1
> package.
>
> Once again thanks!
>                               Rafal
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