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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Mike Kercher <mike@synwork.com>
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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Mike Kercher wrote:

> Is there a way to put a process that is started by a shell script (run by
> cron) in the foreground?  Whenever this process is started by cron, it
> ends up using like 98% of my CPU!  Please help!

Why on earth would you want to put it in the foreground?  cron is meant to
run behind everything; you won't necessarily be logged in when the cron
task starts.

Check your script; make sure some program isn't throwing a fit.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major