On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Grigory Bakunov wrote: > 2) in /etc/yum.cron we can see > sleep `perl -e 'print (int(rand(180))*60) . "\n";'` > > whats a shame! :) > sleep `python -c 'from random import randrange; print randrange(180*60)'` > looks much better :) and adding a variable parsed from yum.conf to control just how long you randomly sleep: print randrange(random_delay) is better yet. This is a function of expected server load -- somebody with only five hosts updating from a single server might prefer to set random_delay to zero and just do them all at once, or set it to one minute to spread them out a few seconds. Somebody with several hundred hosts sync'ing from a single server might want the updates spread out over the current default three hours. A variable in yum.conf is autodocumenting and gives the admin person obvious and simple control. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx
