--- 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}
+