--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex 2008/07/29 17:17:03 1.2 +++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex 2008/07/29 18:35:33 1.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\label{Domain_Crontab_Entries} +\{Domain_Crontab_Entries} When LON-CAPA is installed a file named loncapa is written to /etc/cron.d. The frequency and timing of execution of scripts included in this loncapa crontab file can be modified to suit the needs of your domain. @@ -22,13 +22,12 @@ LON-CAPA, is used to determine the Linux the server, which in turn dictates which utility (yum, up2date, you or rug) is called to perform the package check. \item \emph{/home/httpd/perl/searchcat.pl} run every other day at 1.10 am -/home/httpd/perl/searchcat.pl This script traverses the LON-CAPA resource -directory in a domain and gathers metadata which are entered into -a SQL database. The script will repopulate and refresh the metadata -database used for the searching the resource catalog. The script also -refreshes and repopulates database tables used to store metadata for -publicly accessible portfolio files, and user information needed for -user searches in a LON-CAPA domain. +traverses the LON-CAPA resource directory in a domain and gathers +metadata which are entered into a SQL database. The script will repopulate +and refresh the metadata database used for the searching the resource +catalog. The script also refreshes and repopulates database tables +used to store metadata for publicly accessible portfolio files, and +user information needed for user searches in a LON-CAPA domain. \item \emph{/home/httpd/perl/cleanup\_database.pl} run daily at 2.13 am drops tables from the LON-CAPA MySQL database if their comment is 'temporary' and they have not been modified in a given time (default @@ -45,3 +44,4 @@ first name, last name etc. information s data available from an institutional directory. A conduit needs to have been established to the institutional data source. \end{itemize} +