Re: Question about Splaytime

[Mark Burgess]

On  6 Oct, didier wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> We are currently using the following to upgrade all our Linux boxes
> every evening/
> 
> shellcommands:
> 
>         linux.Hr03.Min00_05::
>                 "/usr/sbin/autoupdate"
> 
> I am wondering if there was any kind of splaytime function which is
> more "local" to
> a class, action versus the global Splaytime function you can define in
> the control section.
> 
> E.g. I am looking at something like
> 
>   shellcommands:
> 
>         linux.Hr03.Min00_05::
>                 "/usr/sbin/autoupdate" splaytime(20)
> 
> Just wondering. Thanks - Didier.


You could use "strategies" to define a random time. (but note bug in
versions before 2.0.8)

M

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