From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 14 11:14:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA00669 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 11:14:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA00663 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 11:14:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberte@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.5/8.8.4) id TAA05329; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 19:50:33 +0100 (MEZ) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199712141850.TAA05329@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: nice question In-Reply-To: from "Matthew D. Fuller" at "Dec 14, 97 09:48:31 am" To: fullermd@futuresouth.com (Matthew D. Fuller) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 19:50:33 +0100 (MEZ) Cc: dnelson@emsphone.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It was Matthew D. Fuller who wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > Another reason not to use csh :) Csh has a builtin 'nice' command with > > different arguments than /usr/bin/nice. man csh and search for 'nice'. > Hmm... > I use tcsh; would that do it? > Let's see.... > {~} mortis:{58} %nice 20 top [..] > Or, for that matter, shouldn't {t}csh's built-in nice be able to set > positive priorities somehow? Seems wierd that since root is generally sh, It does: nice +20 top > that {t}csh should only allow negative priorities. Or maybe it's just me. -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de