From a1b28253ff5324d4b67a3a7bb113dac84e564e06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 04:52:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add rsleep script and use it in crontab.d/jobs.

---
 bin/rsleep          | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 crontab.d/jobs      | 15 +++++++--------
 crontab.d/update.sh |  1 -
 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 bin/rsleep

diff --git a/bin/rsleep b/bin/rsleep
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..120ec2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/rsleep
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# Sleep randomly betwenn 0 and $ARGV[0] seconds.
+
+# Copyright (C) 2013  Simon Ruderich
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+
+if (scalar @ARGV != 1) {
+    print STDERR "Usage: $0 <maximum sleep time in seconds>\n";
+    exit 1;
+}
+
+srand;
+sleep int rand $ARGV[0];
diff --git a/crontab.d/jobs b/crontab.d/jobs
index 1e6c4d2..f898f22 100644
--- a/crontab.d/jobs
+++ b/crontab.d/jobs
@@ -21,17 +21,16 @@
 # Include user's binaries in PATH. Expanding $HOME doesn't work with cron,
 # `update.sh` handles that!
 PATH=$HOME/bin:$HOME/.shell/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
-# "RAND_SLEEP X" is also expanded by `update.sh` to a command which sleeps
-# randomly between 0 and X seconds. Used to reduce concurrent commands if this
+# `rsleep` (random sleep) is used to reduce concurrent commands if this
 # crontab file is used by multiple users.
 
 
 # Taken from Debian's /etc/crontab from cron package 3.0pl1-124 and modified.
 # Thanks.
-17 * * * * RAND_SLEEP 60;   run-parts --report .crontab.d/jobs.hourly
-25 6 * * * RAND_SLEEP 1800; run-parts --report .crontab.d/jobs.daily
-47 6 * * 7 RAND_SLEEP 3600; run-parts --report .crontab.d/jobs.weekly
-52 6 1 * * RAND_SLEEP 3600; run-parts --report .crontab.d/jobs.monthly
+17 * * * * rsleep 60;   run-parts --report .crontab.d/jobs.hourly
+25 6 * * * rsleep 1800; run-parts --report .crontab.d/jobs.daily
+47 6 * * 7 rsleep 3600; run-parts --report .crontab.d/jobs.weekly
+52 6 1 * * rsleep 3600; run-parts --report .crontab.d/jobs.monthly
 
 # Run on system startup.
 @reboot run-parts --report .crontab.d/jobs.reboot
@@ -39,7 +38,7 @@ PATH=$HOME/bin:$HOME/.shell/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/u
 # Run every minute.
 * * * * * run-parts --report .crontab.d/jobs.minutely
 # Run every x hours.
-31 */6 * * * RAND_SLEEP 600; run-parts --report .crontab.d/jobs.hourly6
-39 */8 * * * RAND_SLEEP 600; run-parts --report .crontab.d/jobs.hourly8
+31 */6 * * * rsleep 600; run-parts --report .crontab.d/jobs.hourly6
+39 */8 * * * rsleep 600; run-parts --report .crontab.d/jobs.hourly8
 
 # vim: ft=crontab
diff --git a/crontab.d/update.sh b/crontab.d/update.sh
index fd4a9ae..2b174c1 100755
--- a/crontab.d/update.sh
+++ b/crontab.d/update.sh
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ for file in "$DIRECTORY"/crontab.*; do
                  -e "/^# Copyright (C) [0-9][0-9]* / d" \
         | cat --squeeze-blank \
         | sed "/^PATH/ s:\$HOME:$HOME:g" \
-        | sed 's/RAND_SLEEP \([0-9]*\)/sleep `perl -e "srand; print int rand \1;"`/' \
         >>"$CRONTAB"
 done
 
-- 
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