SUNScholar/Daily Admin

Login in as the DSpace user and then edit the crontab, by typing the following in a terminal:

crontab -e

Add the following lines:

# m h  dom mon dow   command
MAILTO="myemail@my.edu.ac.za"

@hourly         /home/dspace/bin/dspace itemcounter
@hourly         /home/dspace/bin/dspace stats-util -f -i
@weekly         /home/dspace/bin/dspace checker -d2h -p
@monthly        /home/dspace/bin/dspace cleanup

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

# 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
0 2 * * * /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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