1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sitesummary-client b/sitesummary-client
index 9e53e1f..44e416b 100644
--- a/sitesummary-client
+++ b/sitesummary-client
@@ -53,6 +53,21 @@ do
     done
 done
 
+# Sleep a random number of seconds to avoid all clients connecting to
+# the server at the same time.  Based on code from the cron-apt
+# package.
+if [ -n "$runsleep" ] ; then
+    if [ $runsleep -gt 0 ] ; then
+        if [ -z "$RANDOM" ] ; then
+            # A fix for shells that do not have this bash feature.
+            RANDOM=$(dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2> /dev/null | cksum | cut -c"1-5")
+        fi
+        TIME=$(($RANDOM % $runsleep))
+        sleep $TIME
+    fi
+fi
+
+
 mkdir $tmpdir && cd $tmpdir
 
 for fragdir in $fragdirs ; do