On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Matt matt.mailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
I have a shell script that's run every 5 minutes I use to call many other shell scripts. Is there a way to wait a random number of seconds before executing each line? Something like this.
Use your script to generate a random number [0] and pass that to the sleep command?
[0] http://islandlinux.org/howto/generate-random-numbers-bash-scripting
wait_random 10 - 180 (perl /scripts/my_script.pl) & wait_random 10 - 180 (perl /scripts/my_script5.pl) & wait_random 10 - 180 (perl /scripts/my_script7.pl) &
I have many entries in this file and I background them all because most must poll network devices which can take time. None should take over 2 minutes though.
When I run them all at once they bog the system and cause some of latency graphs on equipment being monitored to look poor. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos