Paul - are you sure you are interpreting things correctly? I don't think the behaviour your describe is possible. Can there be some other explanation for the bimodal behaviour?
M On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 09:43 -0600, Paul Krizak wrote: > I'm managing a large cfengine installation and am trying to use a > SplayTime of 120 minutes across the hosts, along with a schedule > parameter to tell cfexecd when to run. > > I *want* cfexecd to "start" on all the systems at 6AM, then have all the > systems wait for up to 120 minutes to actually do the work, thus evenly > distributing the load over a 2 hour period. > > I've got > > SplayTime = ( 120 ) > > in update.conf, and > > schedule = ( Hr06.Min00_05 ) > > in cf.classes (included by cfagent.conf). This has the following strage > result: it runs cfagent on all the systems spread evenly between the two > 5-minute windows between 6:00 - 6:05 and 7:00 - 7:05. This isn't quite > what I had in mind. > > If I change the schedule parameter to something like ( Hr06 ), then > cfagent runs repeatedly on the system during the 6AM hour. This isn't > correct either. > > What magic incantation do I have to do to make cfexecd "kick off" at 6AM > and spread the load out over two hours, with it running just once per day? > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
