Another options which I've used successfully in the past is:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Cron_Patterns - see the
section title: Setting Cron using a Puppet custom function
One important thing to note is that when you get a random value, puppet will
change it on each puppet run.
Ohad
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:54 AM, 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
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