* David Baron ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040603 08:18]: > On Thursday 03 June 2004 14:28, you wrote: > > David Baron wrote: > > > How does one assure that such jobs be run with -nice ##. Simply placing > > > this on the command line as "jobbin -nice ## " ... does not seem to > > > work. > > > > Try this as an example cron entry (assume every midnight): > > > > 0 0 * * * nice cleanup_script.sh > > > > Not all jobs know the arguement '-nice' (setiathome is the only one I've > > seen with this). Otherwise you'll have to prefix with nice > > Yes, I have seen this. Where do I place the number?
NICE(1) User Commands NICE(1)
NAME
nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority
SYNOPSIS
nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]
DESCRIPTION
Run COMMAND with an adjusted scheduling priority. With no COMMAND,
print the current scheduling priority. ADJUST is 10 by default. Range
goes from -20 (highest priority) to 19 (lowest).
-n, --adjustment=ADJUST
increment priority by ADJUST first
good times,
Vineet
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