Delaying cron job for up to 600 seconds?

[Mike Zanker]

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On 02 October 2004 02:12 -0400 Michael Freeman <admin at THENAMEGAME.COM>
wrote:

> update.virus.scanners: Delaying cron job up to 600 seconds
>
> I contantly see this message on one of my boxes? Why? Why would the
> job be delayed?

This is intentional to prevent everybody hammering virus scanner update
servers at exactly the same time.

Mike.

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