I spent a few days recently helping a local restaurant install a new POS system. Firstly, I had to identify which system to use. To do this, I started by looking at the available open source solutions and was pleasantly surprised by what I found. There are quite a few out there, but the system…
Month: December 2018
Run A Cron Job With A ‘Random’ Time Interval
Here’s an interesting little Linux cron timing trick I found. For one reason and another, I had a requirement to run a test cron job but with irregular timing to simulate the real scenario of users connecting irregularly. The trick is to run the cron job on a normal regular interval, but then introduce a…