[SHR-testing] where to get the 'nice' binary

[Stefan Monnier]

> I hope someone can help me with that. I'd love to raise the nice-value
> of apps I start (for example mplayer), but I can't find the nice
> binary on SHR testing.  Any hints as to where to get it? In
> Ubuntu/Debian, it's in the package coreutils, if that helps, but
> I didn't find a similar package in the SHR repositories...  Any help
> is greatly appreciated :)

In such distributions, I'd expect it to be built into `busybox'.
So try to run `busybox' and see if `nice' is listed as one of the
commands that are built into it.  If yes, then "busybox nice -N <cmd>"
should do the trick.  If not, you'll either have to get another build of
busybox that includes `nice', or install Debian's `nice' binary (or
build your own).  Another option is to use start-stop-daemon which
accepts a -N argument.


        Stefan