[Change Request] Use single quotes for the mysql backup cronjob.

Mark Wormgoor mark at wormgoor.com
Fri Mar 20 12:20:09 UTC 2009


Ricky Zhou wrote:
> This has been causing us to get extra cron spam (and stalling mysql
> updates).  I doubt anybody would consider this very risky :-)
> 
> ---
>  manifests/services/db.pp |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/manifests/services/db.pp b/manifests/services/db.pp
> index fbed669..b5a7a29 100644
> --- a/manifests/services/db.pp
> +++ b/manifests/services/db.pp
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class mysqlBackup {
>      }
>  
>      cron { mysql-backup:
> -        command => "time /bin/sleep $(($RANDOM/20)) ; /var/lib/mysql/save-mysql",
> +        command => 'time /bin/sleep $(($RANDOM/20)) ; /var/lib/mysql/save-mysql',

Can you use $(($RANDOM/20)) between single quotes?

Kind regards,

Mark





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