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
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
, so it
doesn't matter either way.
Adam
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From: "John Hendrickx" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 2:17 PM
Subject: [newbie] security.sh in crontab
I've noticed that my machine starts accessing the disks and slows t
It was Oct 13, 2000, 11:17, when John Hendrickx keyboarded:
# Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next
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0 0 * * *root/etc/security/msec/cron-sh/security.sh
searches my disks for certain files using "nice +19", which basically
means "butt in and take over
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From: "John Hendrickx" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 2:17 PM
Subject: [newbie] security.sh in crontab
I've noticed that my machine starts accessing the disks and slows
to
a crawl at 12:00 midnight. I've traced the problem to a line in
# Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next
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0 0 * * *root/etc/security/msec/cron-sh/security.sh
My question is, what does this "security.sh" script do? It's a real
pain in the ass, it effectively disables my computer for about 10
It looks through
