> Frankly, I don't understand why it causes problems its set to
> nice=+19
> sets it at the lowest priority. You must have your system really
> loaded
> when it runs for it to slow things down much.
>
You're right, nice=+19 is lowest priority. I looked up the nice
command in a Unix manual, it said nice -20 is the lowest priority. A
different Unix dialect, perhaps.
The security.sh program does really slow things down, key presses
take several seconds to be executed. I'm using a 200 Mhz Pentium MMX
with 64M RAM, pretty dated by todays standards but fast enough for
me. I'm not running much, just Netscape perhaps, maybe a console,
that's about it. Since the find commands are being run at low
priority, it shouldn't slow things down too much, but it certainly
does, or did, I've deleted it now.
I think it was put in cron because I checked "medium security"
somewhere in one of the configuration programs. I don't think it's
really necessary unless you're using the computer as a server. It
certainly didn't make me feel secure -- the first time it ran I
thought my system had been hacked! Highly unlikely, but if your disks
suddenly start whirring like mad and you can barely access your
system, and you're a Linux newbie, well, you really start to worry.
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