From 9e9950bf8aac53bcef9262acae6505070fbb7a51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Darren 'Tadgy' Austin <darren@afterdark.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:45:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Delay dehydrated cron run for 15 hours + random time.

---
 cronjob-dehydrated | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cronjob-dehydrated b/cronjob-dehydrated
index 92b623f..ec31e99 100755
--- a/cronjob-dehydrated
+++ b/cronjob-dehydrated
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 #!/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