> 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.
Hmmm...I wonder if some experiments are in order. Could be that in Linux
things are a bit different. Why don't you set it to -20 and run it,
seeing what happens to your keystroke responses.
> 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
This sure sounds like a program that's taken high priority on the machine.
> 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
Or a high speed connection where people can break into your system.
Cheers --- Larry
