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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!troll.apana.org.au!rivendell.apana.org.au!phil From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: nice --n ? Date: 20 Aug 1994 07:30:55 GMT Organization: Rivendell - APANA Brisbane. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <334bfg$qp@rivendell.apana.org.au> References: <32b9t4$qr7@hermes.unt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rivendell.apana.org.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Mike Wilson (wilsonm@dale.hsc.unt.EDU) wrote: : 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'. Deceptive error strikes again! 'nice --n' can only be done by root. I believe (correct me if I'm wrong someone!) this error really means "Go away, you are not root." :-) Phil. -- Phil Homewood phil@rivendell.apana.org.au APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au "And the legal pads were yellow, hours long, paypackets lean"