On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 04:08:33PM -0900, Roger wrote: > When logging in, the following fails if put in $HOME/.bash_profile: > > ionice -c 2 -n 0 -p `pidof bash` > > ... I'm guessing, because bash hasn't started yet?
I very much doubt you want to use `pidof bash` here. That would pick up EVERY bash process running on the system, including other people's, and possibly a few wrapper scripts running as root. If you want the PID of the current shell process, use $$ instead.
