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Date:  Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:17:16 -0500
From:  Jon McCauley <jmccauley (at mark) ontarioweb.ca>
Subject:  [coba-e:14329] Re: Cron
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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at the end of the day you only need to make a cron job once...why a GUI 
when you have su -....
what happened to Linux;)

Best Regards, Jon McCauley

sorry for the top post...>

Everard Brown wrote:
> I haven't seen the exact BQ pkg you refer to but can comment on a virgin 
> Webmin installation on BQ.
>
> Most things will work fine but...
>
> Webmin will conflict with BQ for the following:
> a) adding/removing web server configurations
> b) adding/removing site users and their associated mail aliases
>
> You may get away with modifications to the above configurations, but don't be 
> too shocked if you subsequently cannot edit them again via the BQ UI.
>
> The thing to do is make sure you have backed up all BQ configuration data 
> before you try to change it with Webmin, then you have some hope to revert 
> any conflicts that may be caused. Ideally, you would also experiment with any 
> operations you might like to try on a non-production box first.
>
> Of course, if you had no intention of using BQ for the sites or users that you 
> add with Webmin, then that could also work (e.g. your internal accounts and 
> sites)
>
> In the case cron entries, Webmin does provide quite a nice interface and I 
> have not noticed any conflicts with BQ when I changed crontab entries with 
> Webmin.
>
> In summary, there is no "down side" as long as you avoid editing site, user or 
> mail configuration data which the BQ interface is managing.
>
> I'll say it again though... Be careful *and* make sure you have good backups.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Everard
>
> On Friday November 14, 2008, Tony Loosle wrote:
>   
>> thanks Jon and Martyn.
>>
>> I think I saw someone selling or someone that has a pkg of webmin for the
>> blue quartz??
>>
>> does anyone have that?
>>
>> What are the down sides of putting that on a bluequartz?
>>
>> tony
>>
>>
>> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>>
>> On 11/13/2008 at 3:46 PM Jon McCauley wrote:
>>     
>>> Tony Loosle wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Does anyone have a gui to help with cron tasks?
>>>>         
>>> It is quite easy to add a con tab in CLI
>>> http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm
>>>
>>> Best Regards, Jon McCauley
>>>       
>
>
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