I thought it might be because the setpriority() call was tried after permissions were dropped but running as UID 0 doesn't change the "niceness" as seen in ps output
$ (ps alx | head -1) ; (ps alx | grep ntpd) | grep -v grep F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 5 0 14085 1 20 0 32404 1976 poll_s Ss ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g -N -c /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp UID = 0, PRI = 20, NI = 0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to ntp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229632 Title: ntpd should run niced To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/229632/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
