Thanks for that tip Daniel.
I went ahead and switched to use the "fqdn_rand" function as it's a
lot more consistent which is what I wanted.
I'm new to Puppet so I'm still learning some of the functions that can
be used.
On Aug 23, 7:54 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
>
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