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  • Committer: teddy at recompile
  • Date: 2020-02-05 20:32:33 UTC
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Server: Stagger checker runs when creating clients

To avoid checkers for all clients all running at the same time
periodically, schedule every initially scheduled future checker to run
at a time in the future a random amount of the interval, from the
current time.

* mandos (Client.init_checker): Schedule the first scheduled future
  run of a checker to be a randomly chosen amount of this client's
  "interval" (instead of a full interval).

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2020-09-16">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-08-04">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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      <year>2017</year>
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      <year>2018</year>
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      <year>2019</year>
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      <year>2020</year>
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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      As for <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle
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      ><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> in particular, it has
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      its own <ulink
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      url="https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/">Password
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      Agents</ulink> system.  Mandos uses this via its
 
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      url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/"
 
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      >Password Agents</ulink> system.  Mandos uses this via its
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>password-agent</refentrytitle
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      ><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry> program, which is
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      run instead of <citerefentry><refentrytitle
 
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      ><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry> program, which
 
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      is run instead of <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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      >plugin-runner</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum
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      ></citerefentry> when <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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      >systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>