At 2001-02-22 17:41:51+0000, Allen Landsidel writes:
> I guess we can all be grateful that a great number of people apparently
> don't bother updating their systems. ;)
Yes, and so can they. Many (most?) users are very happy with the
FreeBSD they are running, in a headless box stuffed behind a desk
somewhere, that has stayed up continuously for the last year or two
and never needs more than cursory maintenance. Our main server is
running 3.4-RELEASE, and I have two boxes at 2.2.8-RELEASE, upgraded
from 2.2.2 a couple of years ago because I had never done an upgrade
and wanted to see what the process was like. I have a friend who is
still running 2.0.5 (I think), and is still happy with it.
It's easy to forget, here in the dizzy heights of -STABLE and
-CURRENT, that many, many machines _never_ have an OS upgrade. I
would guess that it's the great majority.
> >I bet 99% of all users leave their crontab entries for the periodic
> >scripts unchanged. So regardless of their time zone, they are running
> >a 1 minute after some given hour (0301 in their local time zone).
> >That's 24 possible starting times each day, instead of 1440. Many of
> >the mirrors which are never saturated currently would become saturated
> >at least several times a day under that scheme.
You could have a script which adds a randomly-timed line to
/etc/crontab. Something involving `jot -r 1 0 59` and `jot -r 1 0
23`. :-)
Nick B
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