[Gllug] Staggering cron entries

[Tethys]

>No idea, but as a crude workaround, you could start your cron job
>with:
>
>	sleep $(($(echo $$ | sum -r | cut -d' ' -f1) % 100))

Ooops. You need an extra step:

	sleep $(($(echo $$ | sum -r | cut -d' ' -f1 | sed 's/^0*//') % 100))

Otherwise, a leading zero will cause the shell to interpret the number
as octal -- which won't work too well if it contains an 8 or a 9...

Tet

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