Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!DDATHD21.BITNET!XBR2D96D From: XBR2D96D@DDATHD21.BITNET (Knobi der Rechnerschrat) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: RE: Problems with nice -> should be: Problems with nice man-page. Message-ID: <9008080211.aa02949@VGR.BRL.MIL> Date: 8 Aug 90 06:10:39 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 Hello, the problem with nice seems to be more a problem with the nice man page. There it is silently assumed that you are using /bin/sh as your shell. If you use /bin/csh (or derivates like tcsh) things are different. Here are the rules that I have discovered by experiment: shell def-value decrease priority increase priority (as root) ------------------------------------------------------------------ sh 10 nice -value nice --value csh 4 nice +value nice -value The '-', '--' and '+' are IMPORTANT. Could somebody at SGI look at the man page and correct it for some future release? Regards Martin Knoblauch TH-Darmstadt Physical Chemistry 1 Petersenstrasse 20 D-6100 Darmstadt, FRG BITNET: