Programs started from cron have a nice value of 2 (not 0)

Hi all,

I have an ES80 with Tru64 Unix V5.1B. I've set up a small shell script
which runs out of cron and, if the script detects that a particular
executable isn't running, it starts it. The script is shown below.

The weird and very problematic thing is that it consistently starts it
with a nice value of 2. I have to "renice" it back to 0.

Any idea why this would be happening??

Thoughts/ideas/suggestions much appreciated!

Chris
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#!/bin/sh 
SYSTEM=`/usr/bin/uname -n` 
USAGE="usage: angel PROCESSNAME" 
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then 
	echo ${USAGE} 
	exit 1 
fi 
PROCNAME=$1 
pid=`/sbin/ps -e | grep -w ${PROCNAME} | grep -v grep | grep -v angel |
head -1` 
if [ ! -n "${pid}" ]; then 
	/usr/bin/mailx -s "${PROCNAME} is down" [email protected] <
/home/vlink/angel.dir/vericredit2.dir/msg.txt
	cd /home/vlink/vlink2/vericredit
	./VeriCredit2 &
Fi