On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:06:32 +0200 (CEST) sauer wrote: n> So, I'd like to "repeably randomize" an integer on a host. n> Specifically, I'd like to use essentially the logic from splayclass or n> splaytime to pick a time to run a cron job. "Why not run the job from n> CFEngine?" Well, because the job is to check if cf-execd is running, n> amd I don't want it to fire off on every host at the same time. But I n> can't use a random value, because putting a random integer into the n> crontab wouldn't exactly be convergent.
n> My current idea is to use splayclass to control when I edit crontab, n> and to just use the current minute (possibly along with whichever of n> current+30 and current-30 is greater than 0) for the cron job. But n> that seems a tad clunky (albeit better than launching a module). n> Anyone happen to have a suggestion? I think the more general use case n> for what I'm looking for is randomint, but with an extra parameter to n> make it "predictable_randomint". :) You could take the MAC or IP address mod 60 or whatever granularity you want. I've done that in the past and it works all right. Ted _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
