On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Jo Rhett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nigel, As you've said, the time chosen for the run cycle will be consistent.
> All of these settings are already set -- this isn't a question of how to
> change how often to run, it's how to affect the chosen runtime?
> I've got an awful lot of systems (> 100) which have decided to all roll at
> 28 and 58 minutes after the hour. How can I rebalance them?
This is exactly why I use cron instead of the daemon.
In my module that configures puppet I have:
# These are used to set when the puppet_run cron job runs.
$time1 = fqdn_rand(30)
$time2 = $time1 + 30
cron {
"puppet_run":
command => "$common::data::bindir/puppet_run.sh",
user => root,
minute => [$time1, $time2],
ensure => present,
require => File["$common::data::bindir/puppet_run.sh"];
}
The fqdn_rand gives me a consistent random number per host, and so far
this has been much better than letting the daemon try to splay things
on it's own.
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