[olug] Running programs with nice

[Ken]

Tim Bornholtz wrote:
> Is there a way to change the default nice value for a program?
> 
> I'm using gentoo and I'd like emerge (like yum or rpm) to always run 
> with a nice level of 19.
> I can start it with `nice -n 19 emerge` but I'm lazy and want to just 
> type `emerge` and have it run with a very low priority.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim

you could also just make a quick executable shell script and put it into 
your path IE: /root/bin/nmerge

#!/bin/sh
nice -n 19 emerge

then just type "nmerge" as root to run...
-Ken