[Gllug] Staggering cron entries

[Sean Burlington]

John Hearns wrote:
> I have a dim memory at the back of my mind about
> the possibility or randomly smearing cron entries in time,
> for example in a large cluster you might not want all of
> the nodes downloading something at exactly the same second,
> or making a connection to an HTTP server - or whatever.
> 
> I Was sure this was possible, but an RTFM on vixie cron
> didn't turn anything up. 
> Someone please enlighten me.
> 
> John Hearns
> 

fcron is much more flexible

I'm not sure why the big distros stick with vixie cron

http://fcron.free.fr/doc/fcrontab.5.html#FCRONTAB.5.RANDOM

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Sean


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