Author: Jeremy Harris Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Random number generation in an ACL
Ian P. Christian wrote: > I want to do a database cleanup in my exim config, so there's a 1 in 10,000
> chance some SQL will be run - I could cron it, but I prefer the config to be
> self-contained.
>
> To do this, I obviously need to generate a random number - is this possible in
> the ACLs? I've hacked it in using perl at the moment, but I'm just curious as
> to if I've missed anything - a built in ACL function or something.
Must it really be random, or would a little arithmetic on
a timestamp do?
