Gil Agno Virtucio wrote:
> Hi. I want to randomize the execution of a shell script. Can i use cron
> to do this? or are there other available tools that i can use to do this?
See 'man 6 random' and 'man sleep'.
Then try doing something like this in the background:
#!/bin/sh
while true
do
ran
> Gil Agno Virtucio wrote:
> > Hi. I want to randomize the execution of a shell script.
> Can i use cron
> > to do this? or are there other available tools that i can
> use to do this?
>
> See 'man 6 random' and 'man sleep'.
> Then try doing something like this in the background:
>
> #!/bin/sh
Charles Howse wrote:
>
> I don't happen to have random installed on my system, however jot is
It's in /usr/games/random of FreeBSD 4.8.
> Won't randomNumber=$? Just return 0 if the previous command completes
> successfully?
> Shouldn't it be:
> randomNumber=`random -e 60`
No. In 'man 6 random'
> > I don't happen to have random installed on my system, however jot is
>
> It's in /usr/games/random of FreeBSD 4.8.
>
> > Won't randomNumber=$? Just return 0 if the previous command
> completes
> > successfully?
> > Shouldn't it be:
> > randomNumber=`random -e 60`
>
> No. In 'man 6 random',
