Commit c6687600 authored by Adam Lewenberg's avatar Adam Lewenberg
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put cron patchman command in background to avoid blocking other cron tasks

parent 419c3a5c

templates/etc/cron.daily/patchman-client.erb

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# Sleep between 5 and 90 minutes before running to avoid "herding":

SLEEP_MINUTES=$(/usr/bin/shuf -i 5-90 -n 1)

SLEEP_SECONDS=$((60 * $SLEEP_MINUTES))

sleep $SLEEP_SECONDS



patchman-client -c <%= @patchman_conf_path %> -s https://<%= @patchman_server %>/patchman
 
# Since we can sleep up to 90 minutes, we put the command in the background so it

# does not block any other cron jobs.

sleep $SLEEP_SECONDS && patchman-client -c <%= @patchman_conf_path %> -s https://<%= @patchman_server %>/patchman &