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| author | Tomas Pospisek <tpo_hp@sourcepole.ch> | 2015-01-27 14:10:38 +0100 |
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| committer | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2015-08-12 11:55:47 +0200 |
| commit | 1d6afdd9b174c360936bbaf994ae7dc03a086128 (patch) | |
| tree | c6b81d95feb7197f0e5a80a3118c9dc163e51a3e | |
| parent | a4256c6bb57dbb59767824133a9a42eceeadc522 (diff) | |
document APT::Periodic::RandomSleep
The documentation in the patch is from
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates
That page is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
3.0. Because I'm unsure how that license meshes with apt's license
I've not copied the text but formulated the same information freely
in my own words.
The original text was contributed by Chris Bainbridge [1][3]
and Kees Cook [2]. Thanks to them.
[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates?action=diff&rev1=40&rev2=41
[2] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates?action=diff&rev1=38&rev2=39
[3] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates?action=diff&rev1=37&rev2=38
Closes: 776380
Thanks: Chris Bainbridge and Kees Cook for initial text
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/apt.cron.daily | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/apt.cron.daily b/debian/apt.cron.daily index 61d6aa6f0..765dd4ae4 100644 --- a/debian/apt.cron.daily +++ b/debian/apt.cron.daily @@ -68,6 +68,19 @@ # 1: progress report (actually any string) # 2: + command outputs (remove -qq, remove 2>/dev/null, add -d) # 3: + trace on +# +# APT::Periodic::RandomSleep "1800"; +# - The apt cron job will delay its execution by a random +# time span between zero and 'APT::Periodic::RandomSleep' +# seconds. +# This is done because otherwise everyone would access the +# mirror servers at the same time and put them collectively +# under very high strain. +# You can set this to '0' if you are using a local mirror and +# do not care about the load spikes. +# Note that sleeping in the apt job will be delaying the +# execution of all subsequent cron.daily jobs. +# check_stamp() { |