Re: ntpdate & script to update host at random time

[bmarcum@iglou.com (Bill Marcum)]

On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 11:36:41AM -0400, jmr_071769 wrote:
> hello again with a debian question.
> 
> i'd like to be able to have a few machines 'apt-get update' themselves
> at a random time near/around midnight. how can i go about this with
> another easy script?
> 
I almost forgot, in my previous reply: if you use the 
'sleep $((RANDOM % 1200)) command directly in the crontab, not in a 
script, change the % to \%.


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