Javier Perez <pepebuho <at> gmail.com> writes: > Oftentimes, Cron is used to setup communication with other servers to update Clamav or Spamassassin, maybe to run Yum check-update. > The issue is that if everybody is hitting the servers on the hour, we have instataneous hourly DOS attacks on those servers. > The random delay prevents this by randomizing the access time while guaranteeing that within the next XX minutes you will run the update So someone else has to decide when I have to do my work? I will remove this nonesense script. I have a lot of servers, and they do not (for example) yumupdate nothing if I don't want to, and they yumupdate when I want them to. I am clever enough to put things in the right place. Let Ms. Marcela decide what is good for you... I will rename the script to 0000000000-Marcela.Maslanova.is.clever.than.me and will put a ver big "exit" on the first line. :P
