On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:07:17PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I mainly want to avoid a scenario where all clients arrive at 17
> minutes past the full hour, and need to be served at the same time.
Then I would go for a cron entry at the earliest time you want the
script to be run (say 6:00 AM) which does something like
SHELL=/bin/bash
0 6 * * * root sleep $(( $RANDOM % max_gap )) ; your_command
Where max_gap is the number of seconds corresponding to the latest time
you want your script to be run - 6:00 AM.
Cheers.
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