[LON-CAPA-cvs] cvs: loncom /html/adm/help/tex Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex
raeburn
raeburn@source.lon-capa.org
Thu, 26 May 2011 13:30:42 -0000
raeburn Thu May 26 13:30:42 2011 EDT
Modified files:
/loncom/html/adm/help/tex Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex
Log:
- Information about two additional scripts run by cron.
Index: loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex
diff -u loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex:1.4 loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex:1.5
--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex:1.4 Tue Jul 29 18:56:08 2008
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Crontab_Entries.tex Thu May 26 13:30:42 2011
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
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 @@
\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}