--- 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	2013/12/04 17:52:02	1.7
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ loncapa crontab file can be modified to
 The scripts, which are all run as the user 'www', are as follows: 
 
 \begin{itemize}
-\item \emph{/home/httpd/perl/loncron} run daily at 5.10 am This updates
+\item \emph{/home/httpd/perl/loncron} run daily at 5.10 am updates
 the list of servers in the LON-CAPA cluster to which your domain belongs.
 All servers in this list should be contactable, and will have the
 ability to host user sessions for users in the domain, as well as
@@ -22,17 +22,21 @@ 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 resources 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 +47,9 @@ 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}
+