#22 Running amavis nice

[Aendu Fuchs]

I have succesfully installed amavis perl 11, and it
runs great. Thnaks alot for this peace of code.

The only thing is, i d,like to run amavis in a nicer
mode or better amavis should start the virus scanner
in a nicer mode (i use sophos antivir).

Can i change amavis somewhere so it starts sophos
with: nice -n10 sweep ....

thanks

[Lars Hecking]

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Yes, there are two ways to do this:

- if your system has the setpriority(2) call, you can add
somewhere in amavis (eg. around the initial call to
umask(0077)

setpriority(0,0,getpriority(0,0)+4);

(or ...+5, whatever you think is right).

This setting should be inherited by sweep.

- alternatively, you can add nice when sweep is called:

$output = `nice $sophos -nb ....`;