re: Adding nice to an rc.d script

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> I'm trying to figure out how I can add a nice command to daemons started 
> by rc.d so that I can adjust system performance a little bit.
> 
> Specifically I want to start by raising ntpd's priority to -5.  The 
> built in priority command line optiosn of ntpd (-N or -P -5) don't seem 
> to be working when I add them to the rc_flags variable in the precmd 
> function.  Top says priority is still zero.  Manually running ntpd using 
> nice -5 does work so I'm trying to incorporate this into the startup 
> script somehow.

you should just be able to set ntpd_flags="-N" or so.  look at the
stuff in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.  you may also be interested in
ntpd_chrootdir, for the paranoid.

for real hacking, you can re-set things in /etc/rc.conf.d/ntpd and
have almost full control...


.mrg.