Luke Scharf said:
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
If you use freshclam as a daemon, you don't have to worry about this as it randomizes it?
Yes
But in the crontab case be aware that the mean time between updates in :
0 * * * * sleep $[ $RANDOM % 3600 ] ; /usr/bin/freshclam --quiet
is 3600s, but between 2 updates the delay can be anywhere between 1 and 7199s. Computing $RANDOM doesn't bring anything to the overall distribution quality too.
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