On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Mitja MuE>eniD <mi...@muzenic.net> wrote: > Years ago I've been toying with the idea of having a flag for random-delay > mode in spamd-setup. So the default cronjob is still set at zero minute, but > spamd-setup then waits for random amount of minutes before hitting the > server. You lose the predictability of when your blacklists get updated but > it spreads the load on the infrastructure without involving the human factor > (the lazy admin that uncomments the cron entry without changing the time). >
portsnap, a tool that FreeBSD uses for fetching the ports tree is using a simular method. Take a look here: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.sbin/portsnap/portsnap/portsnap.sh?re vision=235208&view=markup -- chs,
