Really like the ~ feature in cron. I'm moving every machine that gets
updated to -current to use this for the daily/weekly/monthly crons, so
they are randomized in the 30 minute window after the original start
time. Especially useful on machines running a few (or more) VMs.
Something (or something like it) to consider for inclusion?
Thank you for a very useful addition!
Paul
Index: crontab
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RCS file: /home/OpenBSD/cvs/src/etc/crontab,v
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -p -r1.26 crontab
--- crontab 15 Apr 2020 03:24:08 -0000 1.26
+++ crontab 16 Apr 2020 15:05:22 -0000
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ HOME=/var/log
#1-59 * * * * /usr/bin/newsyslog -m
#
# do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance
-30 1 * * * /bin/sh /etc/daily
-30 3 * * 6 /bin/sh /etc/weekly
-30 5 1 * * /bin/sh /etc/monthly
+30~ 1 * * * /bin/sh /etc/daily
+30~ 3 * * 6 /bin/sh /etc/weekly
+30~ 5 1 * * /bin/sh /etc/monthly
#~ * * * * /usr/libexec/spamd-setup
#0~20 9 * * * -n rpki-client -v && bgpctl reload
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