You can pull a psuedo random number from /dev/urandom or /dev/random using the following:
dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2> /dev/null | cksum | cut -f1 -d" " You can look here for more info: http://linuxgazette.net/issue55/tag/4.html Hope this helps Trev On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 08:50 +1300, Bruce McNamara wrote: > I have a script running via a cron job on my Bering uClib firewalls > (V2.4rc1) which runs just past the hour and extracts some network usage > data and emails it back to my reporting system. > > Ths works great but I need to have some way to make the script wait a > random period of time within a window of 1 to 10 minutes before it runs > the email of the data to me (this way each firewall doesent email the data > at the same time). > > I have tried the variable $RANDOM but this doesent return any value > Has anyone got a simple script caplable of doing this?? > > Thanks in advance > > Bruce > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ > > -- Trev Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Advanced Reality ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
