Franck <ffallat...@gmail.com> writes: > So I've decided to use crontab for all my puppet clients rather than > the daemon. I've set-up a puppetmaster with seven puppet clients. > > I'm using the following pattern: > > class cron { > $minute = generate('/usr/bin/env', 'sh', '-c', 'printf $((RANDOM > %60+0))')
$minute = fqdn_rand(59) That generates a random, but consistent, number in the 0-59 range based on the name of the host. This will give some spread, but not the complete randomness of the method above. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ dan...@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.