Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:13:06 +0900 From: Rob Lahaye <lahaye@snu.ac.kr> To: Gil Agno Virtucio <gihl@nesic.com.ph>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomize execution the a script? Message-ID: <3F697722.3000302@snu.ac.kr> In-Reply-To: <web-3479645@digitelone.com> References: <web-3479645@digitelone.com>
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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.
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