.I period
is specified in days, the
.I delay
-in minutes. In addition, if the
+in minutes. If the
.I RANDOM_DELAY
-environment variable is set, then the value of
+environment variable is set, then a random value between 0 and
.I RANDOM_DELAY
-is added to the delay. The value in
-.I RANDOM_DELAY
-denotes a maximal additional delay in minutes, where the minimum delay value is set, to user delay from anacrontab. A
+minutes will be added to the start up delay of the jobs.
+For example a
.I RANDOM_DELAY
set to 12 would therefore add, randomly, between 0 and 12 minutes to the user defined delay.
The