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Introduction

Just after installation it is critically important that you enable daily automated tasks for your digital archive.

In order to send out subscription emails, update search, browse, full-text indexes and do general daily housekeeping on the system, a regular maintenance script must be run automatically daily. On a Unix/Linux based system this is easy to accomplish with use of the "crontab" facility.

Requirements

Click here to setup the "source" folder first.

References

• https://github.com/DSpace/demo.dspace.org/blob/master/scripts/linux/crontab
• http://www.crontab-generator.org
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron
• http://adminschoice.com/crontab-quick-reference
• http://www.yourownlinux.com/2014/04/schedule-your-jobs-in-linux-with-cron-examples-and-tutorial.html
• http://ask.xmodulo.com/add-cron-job-linux.html
• http://teknixx.com/working-with-cron-jobs-on-linux
• http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/disable-the-mail-alert-by-crontab-command
• http://techarena51.com/index.php/a-beginners-guide-to-bash-scripting
• http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/linux-utility-understand-linux-crontab-or-cron-expressions-to-run-command-at-specific-interval

When using the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server change all instances of tomcat to tomcat8.

When using the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server change all instances of tomcat to tomcat7.

When using the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server change all instances of tomcat to tomcat6.