The two times a week is the odd bit, but I set that server up about
three years ago, so who knows now :-)...  And come to think of it, it's
06:02 not 02:06...  so that's even odder :-).

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 13:08, Mike Beattie wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:08:46AM +1300, Chris Hellyar wrote:
> > in the root cron:  (Couple of times a weeek, at 2:06.. Dunno why)
> > 2 6 * * 0,4 /root/cron/synctime
> 
> So you don't get caught in the firestorm of everyone else that does theirs
> at 2am sharp?
> 
> That's my standard practise for network stuff, do it at a strange minute to
> stagger the load on the other end.
> 
> Mike.

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