Puppet Function: ip_to_cron
- Defined in:
- lib/puppet/parser/functions/ip_to_cron.rb
- Function type:
- Ruby 3.x API
Overview
Provides a “random” value to cron
based on the passed
Integer
value.
Used to avoid starting a certain cron job at the same time on all servers.
If used with no parameters, it will return a single value between
0-59
first argument is the occurrence within a timeframe, for
example if you want it to run 2
times per hour the second
argument is the timeframe, by default its 60 minutes
, but it
could also be 24 hours
etc…
Pulled from: projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Cron_Patterns/8/diff
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Author: ohadlevy@gmail.com
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License: None
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# File 'lib/puppet/parser/functions/ip_to_cron.rb', line 2 newfunction(:ip_to_cron, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-'ENDHEREDOC') do |args| Puppet::Parser::Functions.autoloader.loadall Provides a "random" value to `cron` based on the passed `Integer` value. Used to avoid starting a certain cron job at the same time on all servers. If used with no parameters, it will return a single value between `0-59` first argument is the occurrence within a timeframe, for example if you want it to run `2` times per hour the second argument is the timeframe, by default its `60 minutes`, but it could also be `24 hours` etc... Pulled from: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Cron_Patterns/8/diff * Author: ohadlevy@gmail.com * License: None @example ip_to_cron() - returns one value between 0..59 ip_to_cron(2) - returns an array of two values between 0..59 ip_to_cron(2,24) - returns an array of two values between 0..23 @return [Variant[Integer[0,59], Array[Integer[0,59], Integer[0,23]]]] ENDHEREDOC function_rand_cron([lookupvar('::ipaddress'),args[0],args[1]]) end |