On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:24:00PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> This of course has the possibility of running multiple times, so you
> might have to include into the cronjob a test:
> rm /var/run/foo/ran-today 2>/dev/null && exit 0
> It also doesn't guarantee that it runs at all in any given day, or
> that the hosts don't all peg the network at the same time.
Well, it is random of course. If the distribution is uniform you're
granted that in the long run it will be run on the average once per day.
I don't know how stringent were the requirements that the program should
be run once per day, no more, no less ...
Cheers.
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