[LON-CAPA-cvs] cvs: loncom /html/adm/help/tex Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex

[raeburn]

raeburn		Tue Jul 29 13:17:07 2008 EDT

  Modified files:              
    /loncom/html/adm/help/tex	Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex 
  Log:
  - Fix typos.
  - Elaboration for searchcat.pl, Autienroll.pl, Autoupdate.pl
  
  
Index: loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex
diff -u loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex:1.1 loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex:1.2
--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex:1.1	Tue Jul 22 08:50:53 2008
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex	Tue Jul 29 13:17:03 2008
@@ -1,39 +1,47 @@
 \label{Domain_Crontab_Entries}
-\begin{document}
 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.
 The scripts, which are all run as the user 'www', are as follows: 
 
 \begin{itemize}
-\item /home/httpd/perl/loncron run daily at 5.10 am This 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 being available,
-if designated as library servers, to return responses to remote searches
-for files housed there which have been contributed to the LON-CAPA
-content repository. Connections to all servers are re-evaluated by
-loncron in case some machines had become unavailable within the last
-24 hours, and had therefore been flagged as temporarily offline.
-\item /usr/local/loncapa/bin/CHECKRPMS runs every other day at 3.10 am This
-file automates the process of checking for available updates to LON-CAPA
-systems. The distprobe script, installed as a part of LON-CAPA, is
-used to determine the Linux distribution installed on the server,
-which in turn dictates which utitlity (yum, up2date, you or rug) is
-called to perform the package check.
-\item /home/httpd/perl/searchcat.pl run every other day at 1.10 am /home/httpd/perl/searchcat.pl
-This script goes through a loncapa resource directory and gathers
-metadata. The metadata is entered into a SQL database. Repopulate
-and refresh the metadata database used for the search catalog.
-\item /home/httpd/perl/cleanup\_database.pl run daily at 2.13 am cleanup\_database.pl
+\item \emph{/home/httpd/perl/loncron} run daily at 5.10 am This 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
+being available, if designated as library servers, to return responses
+to remote searches for files housed there which have been contributed
+to the LON-CAPA content repository. Connections to all servers are
+re-evaluated by loncron, in case some machines had become unavailable
+within the last 24 hours, and had therefore been flagged as temporarily
+offline.
+\item \emph{/usr/local/loncapa/bin/CHECKRPMS} runs every other day at 3.10
+am. This file automates the process of checking for available updates
+to LON-CAPA systems. The distprobe script, installed as a part of
+LON-CAPA, is used to determine the Linux distribution installed on
+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. 
+\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 (defalt
+'temporary' and they have not been modified in a given time (default
 is 2 days).
-\item /home/httpd/perl/cleanup\_file\_caches.pl run daily at 1.05 am Remove
-temporary files from the LON-CAPA print spool, the multidownload zip
-spool, and userfiles cache.
-\item /home/httpd/perl/Autoenroll.pl run daily at 1.30 am Run the auto enrollment
-script.
-\item (/home/httpd/perl/Autoupdate.pl run daily at 3.30 pm Run the auto
-update script to update first name, last name etc. information. 
+\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.
+\item \emph{/home/httpd/perl/Autoenroll.pl} run daily at 1.30 am updates
+classlists for any LON-CAPA courses for which auto-enrollment is active,
+if enabled in the domain. A conduit needs to have been established
+to institutional course roster information. 
+\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. 
 \end{itemize}