On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 09:56:52AM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 09:37:14 -0600, "Theo de Raadt" wrote: > > > While I understand what RANDOM is trying to do, I am not a fan. I've > > thought often of an improvement, where the minute marker in a crontab > > file could be a letter 'R', which indicates the specific random value > > for this cron start. That value would be selected at cron start, and > > remain constant for the runtime of cron. > > I was thinking the same thing, but using '?' as the character. It > doesn't really matter what we choose, the implementation should be > straight-forward.
+1000. a new random time chosen at cron start. We see this all the time, and it would be a lot better than the hacks for all the things "R" for random sounds good to me > > - todd >
