[411] in athena10
Re: Automatic updates for Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Mon Aug 11 17:22:01 2008
To: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, Kenneth Arnold <kcarnold@mit.edu>,
athena10@mit.edu
From: ucko@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:21:15 -0400
In-Reply-To: <1218488112.14412.11.camel@balanced-tree.mit.edu> (Anders Kaseorg's message of "Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:55:12 -0400")
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Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU> writes:
> It would be extraordinarily annoying to walk into a cluster at :00
> between classes, only to watch all the machines fire this cron.hourly
> job at the same time, blocking all logins for the next few minutes. The
> extra effort to select a random minute (or even a minute other
> than :00!) would be well spent.
At least on Debian, cron.hourly runs at xx:17 by default.
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