Default NICE value to particular user

[Thomas Lee_1]

Hi,

A have special user which use to running batch, currently we looking for if we can set it's NICE value to say 10 for every command it run once login?

Regards,
Thomas

[Dennis Handly]

I don't know of any direct way.

I suppose you could change that user's .profile to detect it is the login shell and then create a subshell with nice:
nice -10 ksh

That wouldn't work for cron or at jobs.

If you use at(1) or batch(1) you can put it in a queue and set a nice value. queuedefs(4)

Of course you can use renice to make it lower.