i guess if there's "renice" there ought to be a "nice" as well.
although posting it twice to the list is prolly overkill.... ;)
p
begin: Chuck Polisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> 'man nice' :
>
> NAME
> nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority
>
> SYNOPSIS
> nice [OPTION]... [COMMAND [ARG]...]
> ^^^^^^^
>
> Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> >
> > dear all,
> >
> > is there a way to start a job and assign it a nice value in advance? i'm
> > thinking about doing something that will take a long time, like
> >
> > find /
> >
> > and assigning it a niceness of 20 (low priority) without having to renice it
> > once the job has already started.
> >
> > pete
