[oclug] Re: seti and crontab

Dave Edwards dle1 at sympatico.ca
Sun Aug 5 19:00:14 EDT 2001


On Monday, August  6  2:15 am, dlinford at vcn.bc.ca wrote:
> nice minus nineteen
>
> > > 0 * * * * cd /home/bsteph/seti; ./setiathome -nice 19 > \
> > > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
>
> 0 * * * * cd /home/bsteph/seti; nice -19  ./setiathome > \
>              /dev/null 2> /dev/null

That's not right.  :)  setiathome has a command line option, -nice.

Why are you running it as a cron job?

Dave.
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