On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 16:35, Lionel Bouton wrote:
> Once an hour is fine, but if you use crontab please add a once randomly
> chosen sleep between 0 and 3599 second before launching freshclam.
> As lots of people using crontab put something like 0 * * * * ... The
> database mirrors have huge peaks of bandwidth usage each hour (and
> what's not good for the mirrors isn't good for the virus db availability).
>
> Something like :
>
> # echo $[ $RANDOM % 3600 ]
> 0 * * * * sleep <value_given_above>; freshclam --quiet
Why didn't I think of that?!? :-)
To add more randomness, I did it like so (on a Linux box where bash is
always available):
SHELL=/bin/bash
0 * * * * sleep $[ $RANDOM % 3600 ] ; /usr/bin/freshclam --quiet
This does seem more polite than hitting it hard, right on the hour.
-Luke
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Luke Scharf, Systems Administrator
Virginia Tech Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
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