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| author | Sebastian Wiedenroth <wiedi@frubar.net> | 2022-01-01 17:07:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Robert Mustacchi <rm@fingolfin.org> | 2022-01-29 21:05:44 +0000 |
| commit | 618372bccd696950e1d234d0ad9c94c353882dee (patch) | |
| tree | 7a0dbfa1fd717e54e306b8dcd8b5b7aef966e0fa /usr/src/man/man1 | |
| parent | 8c65387009c4cfaa0924c78065b46a4d4a178d41 (diff) | |
| download | illumos-gate-618372bccd696950e1d234d0ad9c94c353882dee.tar.gz | |
14358 Cron should support randomized delay
Reviewed by: Andy Fiddaman <andy@omnios.org>
Approved by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@fingolfin.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'usr/src/man/man1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr/src/man/man1/crontab.1 | 27 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr/src/man/man1/crontab.1 b/usr/src/man/man1/crontab.1 index 549133aad2..49723a0b3e 100644 --- a/usr/src/man/man1/crontab.1 +++ b/usr/src/man/man1/crontab.1 @@ -44,8 +44,10 @@ .\" Portions Copyright (c) 1992, X/Open Company Limited All Rights Reserved .\" Copyright (c) 2009, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved .\" Copyright 2020 OmniOS Community Edition (OmniOSce) Association. +.\" Copyright 2022 Sebastian Wiedenroth + .\" -.TH CRONTAB 1 "Aug 20, 2020" +.TH CRONTAB 1 "Jan 9, 2022" .SH NAME crontab \- user crontab file .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -314,6 +316,29 @@ TZ=Iceland .RE .sp +.ne 2 +.na +\fBRANDOM_DELAY\fR +.ad +.sp .6 +.RS 4n +Allows the user to specify an upper bound in minutes for which execution +may be delayed. The default is 0 which means no delay. A value that is +larger than the scheduled interval may result in the command running less +often. For example, to have the command run at some random time within +two minutes after the schedule use: +.sp +.in +2 +.nf +RANDOM_DELAY=2 +.fi +.in -2 +.sp + +.RE + + +.sp .LP Each of these variables affects all of the lines that follow it in the \fBcrontab\fR file, until it is reset by a subsequent line resetting that |