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setting "nice" for 1 user

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eanda10

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Apr 9, 2002
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is there anyway I can set the "nice" command to give one user priority on print jobs i.e. so his jobs supercede anybody elses jobs.
 
nice is for process priority, so wouldn't really apply to print jobs.

Another way perhaps would be to configure a second print queue pointing to the same printer, and only tell that user about it. That way their print jobs wouldn't queue behind the other users' jobs. I'm not sure whether that would give you some contention problems, but worth a try!

Annihilannic.
 
Actually, look into the lp -q priority-level as well. Looks promising...

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