The sa-update.cron script was originally written for use with cron which has no randomization feature, so it includes its own 2-hour random sleep. It would be nice to be able to use the script directly from the command line without a sleep so that the process can be tested immediately, and so that package updates immediately pull the latest rule set instead of waiting for the daily update cycle. When using a systemd timer unit, the randomization could be done directly in sa-update.timer, and an immediate update could be done using "systemctl start sa-update", bypassing the systemd timer randomization. So two things would be needed: 1) Detect in the script if it's being run from cron and do the random sleep. 2) Add the 2-hour randomization to the timer unit file. See also bug 1064537 for when the systemd units were added to this package. Inspired by Letsencrypt's certbot-renew systemd units.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 38 development cycle. Changing version to 38.
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