On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Thomas Mueller <tho...@chaschperli.ch>wrote:
> Am Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:59:29 -0800 schrieb Rune Stensø: > > > For something that's a bit more generic, you can also just use $RANDOM > > with sleep. $RANDOM returns between 0 and 32k as a value, and you can > > use a divider to reduce it. > > For example, I use 'sleep $(($RANDOM/10)) && do_heavy_stuff' to > > randomize the start of a heavy job out across just under a hour. > > > > $RANDOM is "bash'ism". it's not available to all shells out there. > > Right. And if you do this: #! /bin/bash sleep $((RANDOM % 600)) exec puppet ... Using modulus rather than division is probably better here. This sleeps somewhere from zero to 10 minutes. Note also, you don't need to use $RANDOM inside $(()) in bash. -- Jeff McCune http://www.puppetlabs.com/ -- 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.
