Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Integer splayclass equivalent Author: sauer Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,26915,26915#msg-26915
So, I'd like to "repeably randomize" an integer on a host. Specifically, I'd like to use essentially the logic from splayclass or splaytime to pick a time to run a cron job. "Why not run the job from CFEngine?" Well, because the job is to check if cf-execd is running, amd I don't want it to fire off on every host at the same time. But I can't use a random value, because putting a random integer into the crontab wouldn't exactly be convergent. My current idea is to use splayclass to control when I edit crontab, and to just use the current minute (possibly along with whichever of current+30 and current-30 is greater than 0) for the cron job. But that seems a tad clunky (albeit better than launching a module). Anyone happen to have a suggestion? I think the more general use case for what I'm looking for is randomint, but with an extra parameter to make it "predictable_randomint". :) _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
