--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex 2008/07/29 18:56:08 1.4 +++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex 2011/05/26 13:30:42 1.5 @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ user information needed for user searche 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. @@ -42,6 +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}