--- 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 2011/05/26 15:00:55 1.6 @@ -22,17 +22,19 @@ 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 is 2 days). +\item \emph{/home/httpd/perl/refresh\_courseids\_db.pl} run daily at 2.50 am +refreshes the database file (stored on a library server) queried when a +fast lookup is needed for information about courses housed on the server. Course information includes the minimum LON-CAPA version needed to support the resourcs and/or settings used in the course. \item \emph{/home/httpd/perl/cleanup\_file\_caches.pl} run daily at 1.05 am removes temporary files from the LON-CAPA print spool, the multidownload zip spool, and userfiles cache. @@ -43,5 +45,9 @@ to institutional course roster informati \item \emph{/home/httpd/perl/Autoupdate.pl} run daily at 3.30 am can reconcile first name, last name etc. information stored in LON-CAPA with authoritative data available from an institutional directory. A conduit needs to -have been established to the institutional data source. +have been established to the institutional data source. +\item \emph{/home/httpd/perl/Autocreate.pl} run daily at 2.30 am, checks for requests for creation of official courses, queued pending validation of instructor of record status. Also creates any pending course requests made +using legacy web forms which store XML-based course descriptions in a ``pending'' directory. + \end{itemize} +