https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/cron-nice/m-p/3958611#M756419 Hello,<BR />HP-UX B.11.11<BR />how run cron task with higher priority?<BR />I set in /usr/lib/cron/queuedefs :<BR />c50j-5n60w<BR />and task run with nice 25, not with nice 15.<BR />Thank You Ludek Fri, 09 Mar 2007 02:32:07 GMT LudekC 2007-03-09T02:32:07Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/cron-nice/m-p/3958611#M756419 Hello,<BR />HP-UX B.11.11<BR />how run cron task with higher priority?<BR />I set in /usr/lib/cron/queuedefs :<BR />c50j-5n60w<BR />and task run with nice 25, not with nice 15.<BR />Thank You Ludek Fri, 09 Mar 2007 02:32:07 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/cron-nice/m-p/3958611#M756419 LudekC 2007-03-09T02:32:07Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/cron-nice/m-p/3958612#M756420 &gt;how run cron task with higher priority?<BR /><BR />By higher, you mean with a negative nice value?<BR /><BR />You can't unless that user has root and you just use nice -n -number ... in the crontab entry itself.<BR /><BR />queuedefs(4) doesn't appear to allow you to get a higher priority, the whole purpose of cron is to do these in the background with lower priority. Fri, 09 Mar 2007 02:45:22 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/cron-nice/m-p/3958612#M756420 Dennis Handly 2007-03-09T02:45:22Z