On 20Apr2010 09:34, Steven Barre <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| I know that you can get cron to do something "every x". For example
| to have something run every 15 min you would do
|
| */15 * * * * php /path/to/script.php
|
| But now I have a whole bunch of these set up and having them all run
| at exactly the same time is causing issues.
|
| Is there any way to stagger these? Like tell it to run every 15 min
| + 2 min so it runs at 02, 17, 32, and 47 minutes past the hour?
|
| Or is my best bet to simply put a sleep at the start of the script
| with a random time?
Leaving aside the other suggestions to simply write staggered times,
some other "automatic" approaches are available.
1: Put all the jobs in one shell script:
#!/bin/sh
php /path/to/script1.php
php /path/to/script2.php
... etc ...
and have in cron:
*/15 * * * * /path/to/the-above-wrapper-script
which will run them in sequence.
Of course that relies on the all having exactly the same timing.
2: Use a locking system:
*/15 * * * * with_lock "lock_name" php /path/to/script1.php
*/15 * * * * with_lock "lock_name" php /path/to/script2.php
which prevents any of them running at the same time. with_lock is a
script you must write, to obtain a lock of some kind, run the command, and
release the lock. That way when two jobs coincide, one will wait for the
other to complete before proceeding.
I use this script:
http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs//css/bin/lock
for this purpose.
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have steel wool instead of normal stuff, and every spring the helicopters fly
in, pick them up with large magnets, and fly them back to the flat ground,
where they run around in ever diminishing circles until they get to the
middle, where the shearing shed is, and where they are shorn to make Steelo
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