Cron Timing

[Sites, Brad]

2,17,32,47 * * * * php /path/to/script.php

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steven Barre
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:35 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Cron Timing

Hello All

I know that you can get cron to do something "every x". For example to 
have something run every 15 min you would do

*/15  *  *  *  * php /path/to/script.php

But now I have a whole bunch of these set up and having them all run at 
exactly the same time is causing issues.

Is there any way to stagger these? Like tell it to run every 15 min + 2 
min so it runs at 02, 17, 32, and 47 minutes past the hour?

Or is my best bet to simply put a sleep at the start of the script with 
a random time?

Thanks for your help!

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