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<body><div style="text-align: left;"><div>On the weekend an update to cron came out with this new script: /etc/cron.daily/000-delay.cron<br>
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What it appears to do is to introduce a random length of delay before cron/anacron run.<br>
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What is the point of introducing randomness into a finely tuned system?<br>
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When one sets up crontab/anacrontab to go off at precisely a certain time, one expects it to run at the time specified, and not at some random time in the next
68 minutes!<br>
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