Cron - nice

[LudekC]

Hello,
HP-UX B.11.11
how run cron task with higher priority?
I set in /usr/lib/cron/queuedefs :
c50j-5n60w
and task run with nice 25, not with nice 15.
Thank You Ludek

[Dennis Handly]

>how run cron task with higher priority?

By higher, you mean with a negative nice value?

You can't unless that user has root and you just use nice -n -number ... in the crontab entry itself.

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.