[vorbis] Renice ogg123

[Tom Felker]

On Thursday 14 August 2003 10:25 am, Björn Lindström wrote:
> I'm thinking of writing some sort of SUID wrapper for ogg123 that will
> always run it at maximum priority for use with mpg123.el on my Linux
> system.
>
> I just wanted to check first that I am not duplicating efforts
> here. Has anyone already written a tool like this?

I haven't tried to figure this out for myself, but I think the sudo command 
can do that.  It's a generic SUID thingy that lets you chose commands users 
can run as root, so you could probably allow "nice -n -5 ogg123 *" and 
nothing else.


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