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Bug 2090691

Summary:	RFE: Add support for "~" ("random within range") for cronjob execution
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Ondřej Pohořelský <opohorel>
Component:	cronie	Assignee:	Ondřej Pohořelský <opohorel>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jan Houska <jhouska>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:	Lenka Špačková <lkuprova>
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	9.1	CC:	jstanek, opohorel
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature, Triaged
Target Release:	9.1	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	cronie-1.5.7-7.el9	Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	.`Cronie` adds support for a randomized time within a selected range The `Cronie` utility now supports the `~` (random within range) operator for cronjob execution. As a result, you can start a cronjob on a randomized time within the selected range.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2022-11-15 11:18:48 UTC	Type:	Feature Request
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Ondřej Pohořelský 2022-05-26 11:12:44 UTC

This is a RHEL 9 bug tracker of a feature request that has been described and discussed in Bug 1832510.

Description of problem:
I would like to see the OpenBSD cron(8) crontab(5) feature "A random value (within the legal range) may be obtained by using the ‘~’ character in a field. The interval of the random value may be specified explicitly, for example “0~30” will result in a random value between 0 and 30 inclusive. If either (or both) of the numbers on either side of the ‘~’ are omitted, the appropriate limit (low or high) for the field will be used." (source: https://man.openbsd.org/crontab.5) in cronie.

Comment 2 Jan Staněk 2022-05-26 11:17:53 UTC

Re-scheduling, as I believe we can get this done sooner than at the end of the dev window :)

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-15 11:18:48 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (cronie bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:8332