Javier Perez <pepebuho <at> gmail.com> writes:
Oftentimes, Cron is used to setup communication with other servers to update
Clamav or Spamassassin, maybe to run Yum check-update.
The issue is that if everybody is hitting the servers on the hour, we have
instataneous hourly DOS attacks on those servers.
The random delay prevents this by randomizing the access time while
guaranteeing that within the next XX minutes you will run the update
So someone else has to decide when I have to do my work? I will remove this nonesense script. I have a lot of servers, and they do not (for example) yumupdate nothing if I don't want to, and they yumupdate when I want them to. I am clever enough to put things in the right place.
Let Ms. Marcela decide what is good for you... I will rename the script to 0000000000-Marcela.Maslanova.is.clever.than.me and will put a ver big "exit" on the first line. :P