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Benjamin Jones
Benjamin Jones

Reputation: 997

Crontab - run command random time

I have created a cron job in which it runs a command within random value (Example 10 mins) at 11pm everyday. I found this example online but I can not find reference.

What I have that doesn't work

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH
LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR=/user/folder
    0  11  *   *   * sleep $(($RANDOM \% 10))m && python /user/folder/file.py

The following works but does not run at random 10 mins:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH
LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR=/user/folder

0  11  *   *   * python /user/folder/file.py

Wonder if my issue is with $Random?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1141

Answers (1)

Darth Kotik
Darth Kotik

Reputation: 2351

I'm not really good with bash, but You surely can implement sleep inside your python scipt.

import random
import time
time.sleep(random.randint(1, 10)*60)

#Your actual script goes here

Upvotes: 2

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