Pre-Configuring options BEFORE install

[kobra]

OK, I am "anal" about this but I did not see where you are making a DB backup???

I would highly suggest that you make DB backups BEFORE messing with anything in the DB automatically or manually.

[Convergence]

OK, I am "anal" about this but I did not see where you are making a DB backup???

I would highly suggest that you make DB backups BEFORE messing with anything in the DB automatically or manually.

D'oh - yes we backup the databases manually - another cron job is needed for that as well. That's on top of our dedicated servers retaining daily, weekly, monthly backups :)

[kobra]

For the download issues in EP I do not see any integrity issues and one would extract the php that excecutes this into another php file and then cron the excecution of this file...If you use cPanel it appends the hashbang otherwise you need to include it.

Yhe upload I see as problematic and troublesome that could lead to data integrity issues unless the shop is placed into maintenance mode before the upload and might suggest that one do this manually anyway.

As you have root access can you determine if you have mutt installed?
At the cmd line logged in as root enter

$ rpm -qa | grep mutt

If so I have a DB backup routine that can be cron'd
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