Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:55:53 +0100 From: "David J. Weller-Fahy" <dave-lists-freebsd-questions@weller-fahy.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about nice Message-ID: <20041117065531.GA89733@weller-fahy.com> In-Reply-To: <20041117014040.U82191@maren.thelosingend.net> References: <20041116144450.GA70461@weller-fahy.com> <20041117014040.U82191@maren.thelosingend.net>
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* Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net> [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 10. The lower the nice value of a process, the higher its > scheduling priority. > If you don't specify the priority level, then mice adds 10. Ok, thanks Svein. > > nice sudo isoqlog > > sudo nice isoqlog > > The former will run sudo nice, which in turn will make isoqlog run as > root, with the priority level inherited. The latter will make sudo run > nice as root, and in turn run isoqlog with priority 10, with the effective > user inherited. > > The obvoius difference, is that you let sudo run nice without a password, > you could do "sudo nice <anyprogram>" without a password. Yep, that's why I was concerned about it. If there's no reason not to run the first syntax, then that's what I'll use. Regards, -- dave [ please don't CC me ]
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