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Subject: Re: randomize execution the a script?
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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
   random -e 60
   randomNumber=$?
   sleep $randomNumber
   <do shell script here>
done

Where '60' means, maximum 60 seconds between two script calls.

There might be better or nices ways of doing this :).

Rob.