rndsleep – add a random delay to cron jobs
A command-line utility written in Go to sleep for a random period, then run another command line executable. Typical usage would be to run puppet agent in onetime mode in cron to save resources – the random sleep will help to avoid thundering herd issues at the puppetmaster. rndsleep –randmax=30 –command=”puppet agent –no-daemonize –onetime” would …
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