On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 09:19:59AM +0200, Solene Rapenne wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 07:59:35PM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> > CVSROOT:    /cvs
> > Module name:        src
> > Changes by: [email protected] 2020/04/14 19:59:35
> > 
> > Modified files:
> >     usr.sbin/cron  : crontab.5 entry.c 
> > 
> > Log message:
> > Add support for random values using the '~' operator.
> > For example "0~30" will result in a random value between 0 and 30
> > inclusive.  If either (or both) of the numbers on either side of
> > the '~' are omitted, the appropriate limit (low or high) for the
> > field will be used.  OK deraadt@ beck@ jmc@
> > 
> 
> Thank you very much for this, this is a very practical feature.

Seconded! Indeed, very useful e.g. for spreading out daily(8) jobs
in ldom guests hosted on spinning disk :)

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