Re: Niced cron jobs
On 27-Jun-99, 00:50 (CDT), Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 10:35:44PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> >
> > This is the second time you've used the term "forcing". Nobody (and
> > certainly not me) is forcing anybody to do anything.
>
> setting nice in the system cron jobs without providing a way to either
> turn it off or change the nice level *IS* forcing it on everyone.
>
> there is a very simple solution which gives everyone what they want
> - make cron's "niceness" a conffile parameter. those who want niced
> cron jobs can have them, those who don't want them don't have to have
> them...and all without making people have to edit yet another config
> file after every upgrade. set it once and forget about it.
If it's in /etc/crontab, it *is* a conffile parameter. Or do want a
conffile for a conffile?
Steve
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