; For distros that enable sa-update by default my immediate thought is you could ; do one of the following:
A couple of other thoughts: - a switch for sa-update to cause a random delay (up to the argument number of seconds); - use $RANDOM in the crontab (assuming bash shell), e.g. 2 */2 * * * sleep `expr $RANDOM \% 1800` && sa-update ... A.
