Re: renice a process after boot

[francisco <frisco@blackant.net>]

> I tried the following in rc.local:
>
> sleep 5
> /usr/bin/renice -10 `cat /var/named/named.pid`
>
> but upon reboot it says there is no pid file.
> Is there any incantation of cron that will go off only after
> all the processes have started on reboot, giving named
> time to create the pid file?  What other options do I have?


while [ ! -f /var/named/named.pid ]; do
	sleep 10
done
/usr/bin/renice -10 `cat /var/named/named.pid`


You might want to run that out of cron, using '@reboot' for the time.

Good luck,

-f
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