1. is correct.
For 2. read the man page for renice(8).
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On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Rich Payne wrote:
=>On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Rick Petree wrote:
=>
=>> Hello Everyone
=>>
=>> I have two quickie questions for you:
=>>
=>> 1. When you sent a process to the background how do you turn off the
=>> annoying error messages that may come up. For example: you use the find
=>> command to locate a file and you send this long process to the background
=>> and direct the output to a file that you will check later for the results.
=>> Well, when the find command reaches a directory that the user has no rights
=>> to a very annoying "Permission Denied" message is sent to the
=>> standard-output. How do I stop that???
=>
=>Actually the error message are sent to standard error, not standard
=>out. You could redirect it as such:
=>find . -name "myfile" -print 2>/dev/null &
=>
=>This will throw away all the error message but still print stdout
=>(aka: the path when it finds the file) to the console.
=>
=>> 2. When using the nice command to change the priority of a process how
=>> does it work if the process is already running?? Do I need to stop the
=>> process or can it be done on-the-fly??
=>
=>I think only root can change a process already running....try 'man nice'
=>
=>--rdp
=>
=>> Rick
=>> :-)
=>>
=>>
=>
=>
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