From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 2 5: 9:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wit401310.student.utwente.nl (wit401310.student.utwente.nl [130.89.236.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C641B37BD1E for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 05:09:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dalroi@wit401310.student.utwente.nl) Received: from wit401310.student.utwente.nl (localhost.student.utwente.nl [127.0.0.1]) by wit401310.student.utwente.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5BA71E7E for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 14:09:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 14:09:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Alban Hertroys Subject: man nice(1) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20000702120917.D5BA71E7E@wit401310.student.utwente.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is it just me or is the man page for nice in error? It says I have to specify a nice value of (+)20 as "nice -20" and a nice value of -20 as "nice --20". running "nice -20" results in a nice value of -20, though, while "nice --20" says: nice: Badly formed number. Eventually it turned out I had to do "nice +20" ... The man page of renice does state the nice value parameters correctly, which causes a confusing difference between the two commands. This is with a somewhat older 4.0-STABLE. I found this when trying a buildworld "nicely", as my system hottens up a tiny bit to much somewhere (probably my pci viper550 with bad fan) causing spontaneous reboots after a couple of hours. -- Alban Hertroys http://wit401310.student.utwente.nl - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I think, therefore I drink. - Lazarus - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message