Programs started from cron have a nice value of 2 (not 0)

From: Christopher Knorr (cknorr@trapsystems.com)
Date: Mon Apr 30 2007 - 13:58:26 EDT

Hi all,

I have an ES80 with Tru64 Unix V5.1B. I've set up a small shell script
which runs out of cron and, if the script detects that a particular
executable isn't running, it starts it. The script is shown below.

The weird and very problematic thing is that it consistently starts it
with a nice value of 2. I have to "renice" it back to 0.

Any idea why this would be happening??

Thoughts/ideas/suggestions much appreciated!

Chris
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#!/bin/sh
SYSTEM=`/usr/bin/uname -n`
USAGE="usage: angel PROCESSNAME"
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
        echo ${USAGE}
        exit 1
fi
PROCNAME=$1
pid=`/sbin/ps -e | grep -w ${PROCNAME} | grep -v grep | grep -v angel |
head -1`
if [ ! -n "${pid}" ]; then
        /usr/bin/mailx -s "${PROCNAME} is down" cknorr@trapsystems.com <
/home/vlink/angel.dir/vericredit2.dir/msg.txt
        cd /home/vlink/vlink2/vericredit
        ./VeriCredit2 &
Fi

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