On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 08:39:49AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: >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.
Yes I do. It's only me on this computer, unless you're speculating on prioritizing a snooper. :-O Here's the error I get when logging into a virtual terminal and $HOME/.bash_profile executes or is read in: ionice: ioprio_set failed: No such process -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/
