While not necessarily random you could use the msec parameter of show clock output to simulate a random number between 0 and 5 using something like this:
event manager applet two
event none
action 1 cli command "show clock"
action 2 regexp ".*\.([0-9]+).*" "$_cli_result" match msec
action 2.5 divide $msec 6
action 3 puts "random: $_remainder"
Unfortunately the wait action does not accept a variable name as input so if you wanted to run commands in a loop and have each one run at a random second you would have to create a wait loop prior to running the command. Here is an example:
event manager applet three
event none maxrun 60
action 098 puts "loop running 5 times"
action 099 set count 0
action 100 while $count lt 5
action 101 cli command "show clock"
action 102 regexp ".*\.([0-9]+).*" "$_cli_result" match msec
action 102.6 multiply $count $count
action 102.7 multiply $msec $_result
action 103 divide $_result 6
action 104 set i "0"
action 105 while $i le $_remainder
action 106 wait 1
action 107 incr i
action 108 end
action 109 puts "waited $_remainder seconds"
action 110 incr count
action 111 end
action 112 puts "loop finished"
This will produce output such as:
#ev man run three
loop running 5 times
waited 0 seconds
waited 5 seconds
waited 2 seconds
waited 3 seconds
waited 2 seconds
loop finished
Thanks
