RE: [cobalt-users] Reseller / Affiliate programs (scripts)

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

||>No, you could switch to NT or W2K.  It's a Linux limitation.

Aha! So it is Linux, and not the Cobalt software. That answers a question I
just posed to Alfredo.
As for NT - eechh. No thanks.  :)

||>
||>> However, the instructions I found in this message completely lose me:
||>> http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2000-October/022037.html
||>
||>The post seems relatively self-explanatory to me, but does presume you
||>understand Linux on a sysadmin level.

I'm getting there... slowly.

||>If you don't, you have a few choices:
||>
||>1) Stick within the limitations of your RaQ.

I'm too knowledge-hungry for that! That's really the reason I got a RaQ, so
that I could basically have something to hold me up while I learned, rather
than throwing myself in way over my head and going crazy from pure
frustration. *L*

||>2) Become a system administrator.

I'm trying!

||>3) Hire one <smile>.
||>
||>I put my <smile> on the end of suggestion 3 because it's a service I
||>offer <smile, again>.  Very reasonably priced; as low as $75/month,
||>depending on workload.

That *is* reasonably priced. Egads, Jeff, methinks you might be selling
yourself short!
I might need to take you up on it one day, but hopefully I can learn quickly
enough to keep my head above water.

||>> And I still have no idea what actual 'level' of administration
||>all of these
||>> different Admins have.
||>
||>They'd each have "admin" control over the sites in their "group".

I get that part now. It actually solves a lesser problem of mine, for
clients that have more than one site and want to administer them all through
one login rather than switching back and forth. Now I know how to help them
do this. They can't su to root, which is great.

||>> Just showing that I am trying to find the info for myself, but
||>am still at a
||>> loss. It could be the head cold and the sinus medication, though, I'm
||>> feeling pretty loopy.  ;)
||>
||>Get a crash-course in Systems Administration; there are three day
||>courses in the $1500 range <smile>.

Believe me, I want to take some courses and possibly even get certified.
Hubby was laid off though and so my plans for taking courses got put on a
backburner. Even then, his CCNA and MCSE classes are going to come first -
*sigh*.
You know all of those Sybex books for CCNA, MCSE, and the like?  Is there a
book for Unix/Linux that speaks in plain-talk (which the Linux docs don't)
that *you* feel is good enough to put your recommendation behind it?  I
think you've written a book (I've seen mention of something like that here
and there in the lists) but I've hunted around for your name on the book
sites and have come up empty-handed. (No, I'm not stalking you, I swear.
*L*)
I was thinking of maybe getting a part-time job as a SysAdmin assistant at
an ISP here locally that runs all Unix servers. If they'd even have me, that
is... so I could LEARN!  I doubt, though, that what little I do know is even
good enough to be an assistant. :(

Carrie