Priority for cron jobs

[Jim Cheetham]

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 21:22 -0300, Fábio Mendes wrote:
> I'm sorry, I didn't saw it. I'm not really into cron job details, but
> from what I saw in the scripts, no job is firing it's commands with a
> low priority. I don't know if there is a cron configuration that handle
> that or if you have to code in each script. It makes sense for me that
> they run with a 15 or so priority, so users will barely notice when
> they're running (it looks as if the system is broken if it slows down
> suddenlly, specially when there is no user visible note about it).

You can prefix the commands you want to run slowly with "nice" to drop
their priority - I would say "see the man page" but for reasons that
don't convince me, GNU stuff ships with info pages instead. "info nice"
for more details.

-jim