From 8a8920529eb9ea804fafb3a01b6e88d5d0e24351 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Darren 'Tadgy' Austin <darren@afterdark.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 13:06:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Run dehydrated cronjob at random time.

---
 cronjob-dehydrated | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cronjob-dehydrated b/cronjob-dehydrated
index ec31e99..7afa21c 100755
--- a/cronjob-dehydrated
+++ b/cronjob-dehydrated
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-
-# Delay the run for 15 hours (from midnight) and then run at a random time within 3 hours after that.
-sleep $(( 54000 + (RANDOM % 10800) ))
-
-/usr/sbin/dehydrated -c >/dev/null
+# Run this job in the background.
+( # Delay the run for 15 hours (from midnight) and then run at a random time within 3 hours after that.
+  sleep $(( 54000 + (RANDOM % 10800) ))
+  /opt/sbin/dehydrated -c >/dev/null ) &