Questions on 'sys admin guide'

[A. Mani]

In https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AGBeta#Scheduling_Tasks and
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AGBeta/Cron

no GUI tools are mentioned. Sysadmins need not necessarily use CLI
tools and in actual practice it is compulsory that they know.
So maybe the 'Additional Information' is in need of improvement.. But
the doc seems to be 'ready for editing' (?)

The first line "Fedora provides a cron facility for tasks
scheduling...." sounds odd. 'cron' is installed in the same way as in
many other distros.
Is the cron daemon a 'cron facility'? It should be rectified to
something like "The 'cron' daemon is the default CLI utility for
scheduling tasks".

Best

A. Mani

[Murray McAllister]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Mani A  wrote:
> In https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AGBeta#Scheduling_Tasks and
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AGBeta/Cron
>
> no GUI tools are mentioned. Sysadmins need not necessarily use CLI

GUI tools probably are not mentioned because it is bad practice to use
X Windows on servers.

Cheers.

[Karsten Wade]

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 04:41 +0530, Mani A wrote:
> In https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AGBeta#Scheduling_Tasks and
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AGBeta/Cron
>
> no GUI tools are mentioned. Sysadmins need not necessarily use CLI
> tools and in actual practice it is compulsory that they know.
> So maybe the 'Additional Information' is in need of improvement.. But
> the doc seems to be 'ready for editing' (?)
>
> The first line "Fedora provides a cron facility for tasks
> scheduling...." sounds odd. 'cron' is installed in the same way as in
> many other distros.
> Is the cron daemon a 'cron facility'? It should be rectified to
> something like "The 'cron' daemon is the default CLI utility for
> scheduling tasks".

FWIW, I'm currently unclear on what we should do about sysadmin content.
With the looming 'Linux Deployment Guide' out there, we are probably
better served updating that content.  However, it is entirely off the
wiki (in XML), so doesn't work as well with the facts of community
collaboration.  I've been ignoring thinking about this until the work
for F10 is done.

- Karsten