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Old 03-07-2011
Call Nice command (priority) from /bin/ksh
Hello,

I am just starting with shell scripting, as everyone will soon see from my question. What I'm trying to do is call the Nice command to set the script process priority from /bin/ksh. The difference is I'm running it not directly through the shell, but through Bigfix (very similar to MSFT's SMS\SCCM).

I feel certain my syntax to call it is off. Here is what I tried (along with a few other variations):

/bin/ksh nice -n 20 <script to run>

Removing any call to Nice and it runs fine so clearly the shell is opening, but just not finding and\or running Nice. This was tested on AIX 6.1 and Red Hat 5.2

Any help is very much appreciated.

Thanks!
Last edited by solly119; 03-07-2011 at 01:43 PM..
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Old 03-07-2011
Have you got an error message ? If so do post it here ... so many things can go wrong theses days !
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Old 03-07-2011
nice isn't a shell script, so you can't just do /bin/ksh nice ... It won't know what to do with a binary executable.

Have nice run ksh instead. nice -n 20 /bin/ksh script-to-run
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Old 03-07-2011
Thank you Corona688! That did it.
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