What Fedora makes sucking for me - or why I am NOT Fedora

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, James Antill wrote:

>
> Maybe my explanation was bad, what you have is this:
>
> 1. Start of "cron like" service for getting updates/whatever.
>
> 2. Run of "cron like" service.
>
> 3. sleep for 1 hour, then goto #2.
>
> ...here we want #1 to have a random-ish start, but the 2<=>3 loop to be
> on a simple 1 hour cycle.
> Yum -R is great, and used by yum-cron, but there's no good way to get
> the above behaviour with it (doing yum -R 60 every hour means you can
> have almost a 2 hour window between runs).

Then you have the first run be random, and it marks when it last ran and 
spaces them out for the rest of the time 1 hour later, each.


-sv