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Re: Best practices for cron jobs?



On Wednesday 13 June 2007 06:28:09 Duncan Findlay wrote:
> I imagine it would be relatively simple to have the postinst generate
> a random time during the day for a cron script to run, but this
> doesn't work with anacron -- many users would never get updates.

how would this break anacron?

> What can I do to satisfy those with and without anacron, and to avoid
> hammering the sa-update servers at a specific time?

personally, i would do something like this:

  - generate the crontab with a random hour/minute into a temp file
  - register the temp file /etc/cron.d/yourpackage via ucf


	sean

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