proposal: best practices for cron jobs in RPM packages

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 04:38:20PM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
> No cron.daily runs at 04:02 daily not necessarily freshclam. The jobs are
> executed in alphanumeric order depending on your locale and sort order.
> The other variable is the number of jobs and the length of time they run.
> I do not think it is that big of a deal. If it really bothers you mv the
> time cron.daily executes.

Or, make a "0000sleep" in cron.daily that looks like this

#!/bin/bash
sleep $(( $RANDOM % 3600 ))



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