SUNScholar/Daily Admin

Introduction

This wiki help page assumes that you have used the three system setup procedures to install an Ubuntu server with DSpace software.

Login

http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Prepare_Ubuntu/S01

Crontab

Edit the crontab, by typing the following in a terminal as the dspace user:

crontab -e

If asked to select an editor, choose nano

Then add the following lines using the copy and paste functions of firefox and nano:

Replace %myadmin@repo.ac.za% with the email address of the person to receive system admin email.

# m h  dom mon dow   command
MAILTO="%myadmin@repo.ac.za%"


# Item counts
@hourly		/home/dspace/bin/dspace itemcounter

# SOLR stats update
@hourly		/home/dspace/bin/dspace stats-util -f
@hourly		/home/dspace/bin/dspace stats-util -i
@daily		/home/dspace/bin/dspace stats-util -u
@daily		/home/dspace/bin/dspace stats-util -m

# SOLR discovery update
@daily          /home/dspace/bin/dspace update-discovery-index -o
@weekly         /home/dspace/bin/dspace update-discovery-index -b -f
@monthly        /home/dspace/bin/dspace update-discovery-index -c

# Bitstream checksums update
@weekly         /home/dspace/bin/dspace checker -u -d2h -p
@weekly         /home/dspace/bin/dspace checker-emailer -a
@monthly	/home/dspace/bin/dspace cleanup

# Check for lifted embargos
10 0 * * * /home/dspace/bin/dspace embargo-lifter

# Send out subscription e-mails
0 1 * * * /home/dspace/bin/dspace sub-daily
 
# Run stat analyses 
10 1 * * * /home/dspace/bin/dspace stat-general
20 1 * * * /home/dspace/bin/dspace stat-monthly

# Run stat analyses reports
10 2 * * * /home/dspace/bin/dspace stat-report-general
20 2 * * * /home/dspace/bin/dspace stat-report-monthly

# Run the media filter
@weekly	   /home/dspace/bin/dspace filter-media

# Index items
0 3 * * * /home/dspace/bin/dspace index-update

# Generate sitemaps
0 6 * * * /home/dspace/bin/dspace generate-sitemaps

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NANO Editor Help

CTL+O	= Save the file and then press Enter
CTL+X	= Exit "nano"
CTL+K	= Delete line
CTL+U	= Undelete line
CTL+W	= Search for %%string%%
CTL+\	= Search for %%string%% and replace with $$string$$
CTL+C	= Show line numbers

More info = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_(text_editor)

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References

• http://adminschoice.com/crontab-quick-reference
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC18/Installation#Installation-'cron'Jobs
• http://www.dspace.org/1_6_2Documentation/ch03.html#N10A98
• http://dspace.2283337.n4.nabble.com/DSpace-1-7-and-cron-tasks-td3389488.html

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