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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.funet.fi!nntp.hut.fi!nntp.hut.fi!tri From: tri@snakemail.hut.fi (Timo J. Rinne) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: nice --n ? Date: 11 Aug 1994 10:01:57 GMT Organization: Helsinki University of Technology Lines: 10 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <TRI.94Aug11130157@alpha.hut.fi> References: <32b9t4$qr7@hermes.unt.edu> Reply-To: Timo.Rinne@hut.fi NNTP-Posting-Host: alpha.hut.fi In-reply-to: wilsonm@dale.hsc.unt.EDU's message of 10 Aug 1994 19:30:44 GMT >>>>> wilsonm@dale.hsc.unt.EDU (Mike Wilson) said: > I checked the man pages on 'nice' and it says nice --n command should > increase the priority to the negative (better), well I continually get > 'Badly formed number'. However 'nice -10 command' works, but what I actually > want it 'nice --10 command'. You just have to be root to actually use a negative nice. Error message seems somewhat misleading. //tri