Virus update times

[Peter Peters]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 19:10:16 +0100, you wrote:

>I would use the domainname to create a semi-random number and the
>machines update at the same time within this domain. Unfurtunately, I
>don't know how to do it in perl. Shell could be:
>
>NUMERICAL_VALUE=`domainname | md5sum | \
> od --address-radix=n --read-bytes 4 --format d4`
>DELAY=$(( NUMERICAL_VALUE % 3600 ))
>
>
>but this has to many assumption on installed programms (domainname is to
>much of a assumption).

What about using org-name from MailScanner.conf?

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