Here's a problem I didn't really think about for so long. I'm kind of hoping somebody solved it already :)
I'm working on a "geoip" module that among other things, installs a cronjob to update the geoip databases periodically. Now the cronjob is just a plain file resource that puppet drops into '/etc/cron.d/'. == Problem == Doing that on 50 machines will result in all of them trying to download the geoip dbs at the same time. == Possible solutions == 1) prepend the cronjob task with "perl -e 'sleep rand 3600' ; " or equivalent 2) have a puppet template "randomize" the cron minute, hour and eventually day. == Question == About 2), how do I randomize a template and have puppet avoid replacing it whenever there's a new run? Is there a way to do this? -- Cosimo -- 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.
