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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:23:37 -0400
To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>, questions@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: Best way to "renice" a process by name?
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At 9:32 AM -0600 9/26/06, Brett Glass wrote:
>
>Is there a "renice by name" utility for FreeBSD (sort of an 
>equivalent of "killall")? I could gin one up, but since this seems 
>like something that people would want to do frequently, find it hard 
>to believe that someone hasn't already written one.

FreeBSD added the `pgrep' command sometime ago.  Your renice-by-name
script would turn into something like:

     renice +2 `pgrep diskd`

(I have not tested that, and you might want to embellish it by adding
some of the other options to the `pgrep' command)

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