Virus update times

[Peter Peters]

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:52:20 +0100, you wrote:

>Kevin Spicer wrote:
>
>>Several things stuck me.
>>1) Many (most?) MailScanner users use cron.hourly to schedule updates,
>>therefore we, as a community, are probably responsible for a
>>substantially increased load at one point every hour.
>
>could it be possible to set this in update_virus_scanners with a random
>value
>i hope that this would not stop other scripts in cron.hourly.
>
>
># vi /usr/sbin/update_virus_scanners
>
>#!/bin/bash
>
>sleep 300

I have seen some crontab scripts used for updating stuff having a random
value as the parameter of sleep. Making it even random every time it
runs.

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