Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 69995
nice -n 8 produces erroneous result in tcsh
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:44:45 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020509 Description of problem: nice -n 8 /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg nice: Badly formed number. nice --help nice: Badly formed number. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1./bin/tcsh 2.nice --help -or- 3.nice -n 8 /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg Actual Results: nice: Badly formed number. Expected Results: should have adjusted priority accordingly Additional info: works as expected under bash/sh/zsh not sure whether this is tcsh specific or not, renice works normally under tcsh. I use tcsh 100% of the time, by personal preference, and this is the first instance of finding a stock command that doesn't work as expected in 6 months of daily usage of 7.2
bleh, as it turns out, nice is also a tcsh builtin and this wasn't /bin/nice misbehaving, as further investigation discovered. *sigh* ah well, one less thing to worry about.