I've set a very few commands as NOPASSWD in sudo, and run them from my
normal user's crontab. I've seen some examples of crontab's that use
nice, but none that use sudo and nice. That led me to a few questions.
All paths have been stripped stripped - sudo and isoqlog are in
/usr/local/bin, nice
In the last episode (Nov 16), David J. Weller-Fahy said:
I've set a very few commands as NOPASSWD in sudo, and run them from
my normal user's crontab. I've seen some examples of crontab's that
use nice, but none that use sudo and nice. That led me to a few
questions. All paths have been
* Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-11-16 16:56 +0100]:
In the last episode (Nov 16), David J. Weller-Fahy said:
If so, what is the difference between the following two commands (in
terms of priority level)?
nice isoqlog
isoqlog
man nice:
The nice utility runs utility at an
[David J. Weller-Fahy, 2004-11-16]
1. I understand nice is useful if you need to run a program at a certain
priority. Is nice useful when not passing a priority? If so, what is
the difference between the following two commands (in terms of priority
level)?
nice isoqlog
isoqlog
* Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-11-17 01:52 +0100]:
nice isoqlog
isoqlog
According to the man page nice(1)
The nice utility runs utility at an altered scheduling priority, by
incrementing its ``nice'' value by the specified increment, or a default
value of
