On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote:
> 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
This seems overly complicated. Why not just have a bash wrapper
script execute from cron and execute puppetd for you:
#! /bin/bash
sleep $((RANDOM % 600))
exec puppetd $@
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Jeff McCune
http://www.puppetlabs.com/
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