On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Matt <matt.mailinglists at 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 at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //