#!/bin/bash # # .---. . . # | | | # |--- .--. .-. .-. .-.| .-. .--.--. |.-. .-. .--. .-. # | | (.-' (.-' ( | ( )| | | | )( )| | (.-' # ' ' --' --' -' - -' ' ' -' -' -' ' - --' # # Freedom in the Cloud # # Cron functions # # License # ======= # # Copyright (C) 2014-2016 Bob Mottram # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU Affero General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . function cron_add_mins { if ! grep -q "${2}" /etc/crontab; then echo "*/${1} * * * * root ${2}" >> /etc/crontab systemctl restart cron fi } function randomize_cron { # The predictable default timing of Debian cron jobs might # be exploitable knowledge. Avoid too much predictability # by randomizing the times when cron jobs run if [[ $(is_completed $FUNCNAME) == "1" ]]; then return fi # randomize the day on which the weekly cron job runs randdow=$(($RANDOM%6+1)) sed -i "s|\* \* 7|* * $randdow|g" /etc/crontab # randomize the time when the weekly cron job runs randmin=$(($RANDOM%60)) randhr=$(($RANDOM%3+1)) sed -i "s|47 6|$randmin $randhr|g" /etc/crontab # randomize the time when the daily cron job runs randmin=$(($RANDOM%60)) randhr=$(($RANDOM%3+4)) sed -i "s|25 6\t\* \* \*|$randmin $randhr\t* * *|g" /etc/crontab # randomize the time when the hourly cron job runs randmin=$(($RANDOM%60)) sed -i "s|17 \*\t|$randmin *\t|g" /etc/crontab # randomize monthly cron job time and day randmin=$(($RANDOM%60)) randhr=$(($RANDOM%22+1)) randdom=$(($RANDOM%27+1)) sed -i "s|52 6\t|$randmin $randhr\t|g" /etc/crontab sed -i "s|\t1 \* \*|\t$randdom * *|g" /etc/crontab systemctl restart cron mark_completed $FUNCNAME } # NOTE: deliberately there is no "exit 0"