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Doesn't the "&" after the script command let it run in the background? ie heavy_and_not_urgent_script.pl & On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 13:10 +0100, Martijn wrote: > Hello again. > > Me again, with a Linux command line question. Is there a way to invoke > the renice command directly when starting a process? I mean: right now > I enter > heavy_and_not_urgent_script.pl > then run ps to find that its PID is 12345 and then I run > renice 20 12345 > to make the script run 'in the background' (i.e. only use resources > that would be unused otherwise). > > I want to do all this in one line, in particular as I might want to > run the script from a cron job. > > (I could run a second script that grabs that data from the output of > ps, finds the PID and then renices the process, but that is a bit of a > pain and, since the process might just identify itself as 'perl', it > is not guaranteed to work.) > > Thanks. > > Martijn. > -- Kevin Lucas <kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Minions Shop Cornwall's Top Shop -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html