On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Don Armstrong said: > > On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > I'd like to create a cron entry which is run once a day, at some > > > random time. This is necessary because the cron entry will result > > > in a request over the network, and I want to avoid that all hosts in > > > a time zone pound the server at the same time. > > > > Why not just something like: > > > > 0 0 * * * at now + $(( $RANDOM \% 1440 )) minutes [...] > > Because that's a bashism, and some dash user will get upset with you.
So set SHELL in the crontab, or do some portable equivalent. Don Armstrong -- This can't be happening to me. I've got tenure. -- James Hynes _Publish and Perish_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
