SUNScholar/Daily Admin/1.8.X

Back to Daily Admin

Step 1. Login

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

Click on the link above to find out how to login to the server and then return here.

Step 2. Create "dspace" user crontab

Sample crontab for DSpace <= 1.8.2 (superseded by 3.2 daily admin)

Edit the crontab, by typing the following in a terminal:

su - dspace

crontab -e

If asked to select an editor, choose nano

Remove all the contents by pressing CTL+k repeatedly, 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%"

### Setup embargoes before enabling this ###
### After embargoes are setup, remove the hash to enable embargo checking ###
### See wiki customisation page for setup details ###
### http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Embargo_Systems ###
## Check for lifted embargos ##
#05 0 * * *      /home/dspace/bin/dspace embargo-lifter -a -v
##The above option is made available with DSpace 3.2 only
#10 0 * * *      /home/dspace/bin/dspace embargo-lifter -l -v
#15 0 * * *      /home/dspace/bin/dspace embargo-lifter -c -v

### See wiki customisation page for setup details ###
### http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Browse_Indexes ###
## Update item search and browse indexes ##
0 3 * * *       /home/dspace/bin/dspace index-update

### See wiki customisation page for setup details ###
### http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/SOLR_Statistics ##
## SOLR stats update ##
@daily          /home/dspace/bin/dspace stats-util -b -r   
@weekly         /home/dspace/bin/dspace stats-util -o
@monthly        /home/dspace/bin/dspace stats-util -u -m -i -f

### See wiki customisation page for setup details ###
### http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/SOLR_Discovery ###
## SOLR discovery update ##
@daily          /home/dspace/bin/dspace update-discovery-index
@weekly         /home/dspace/bin/dspace update-discovery-index -o
@monthly        /home/dspace/bin/dspace update-discovery-index -c

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

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

## Send out subscription e-mails ##
0 1 * * *       /home/dspace/bin/dspace sub-daily
 
## Run the media filter ##
## This is setup to run weekly to reduce server load ##
## It can be setup to run nightly if you want ##
@weekly	        /home/dspace/bin/dspace filter-media

## Bitstream checks ##
@weekly         /home/dspace/bin/dspace checker-emailer -a
@monthly        /home/dspace/bin/dspace checker -p -l
@monthly  	/home/dspace/bin/dspace cleanup -v

### The following are not needed if using the new SOLR stats above ###
## 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

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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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