syntax problem with cron

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 08.09.2004 schrieb Alexander Dalloz um 17:56:

> 1 * * * * sleep $[ $RANDOM \% 1800 ] ;/usr/bin/freshclam --quiet
> 
> I wouldn't use this crontab because it does not what it should do. It
> starts every single minute a new task, wating the random amount of
> seconds until it executes the freshclam process. So these "sleepers" are
> rapidly growing.

Sorry, blame me for reading and replying too fast. I will be more
careful in future (hope so:)

The crontab entry does not cause the command to be run every single
minute but a minute after each full hour. So the tasks will not rapidly
sum up. Pardon.

Alexander


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