Cron Jobs

'cron' Jobs

Email alerts for new deposits and new media filter tool

To set these up, you just need to run the following command as the dspace UNIX user:

crontab -e

Then add the following lines:

# Send out subscription e-mails at 01:00 every day

0 1 * * * [dspace]/bin/sub-daily

# Run the media filter at 02:00 every day

0 2 * * * [dspace]/bin/filter-media

# Run the checksum checker at 03:00

0 3 * * * [dspace]/bin/checker -lp

# Mail the results to the sysadmin at 04:00

0 4 * * * [dspace]/bin/dsrun org.dspace.checker.DailyReportEmailer -c

Naturally you should change the frequencies to suit your environment.

PostgreSQL also benefits from regular 'vacuuming', which optimizes the indices and clears out any deleted data. Become the postgres UNIX user, run crontab -e and add (for example):

# Clean up the database nightly at 4.20am

20 4 * * * vacuumdb --analyze dspace > /dev/null 2>&1

In order that statistical reports are generated regularly and thus kept up to date you should set up the following cron jobs:

# Run stat analyses

0 1 * * * [dspace]/bin/stat-general

0 1 * * * [dspace]/bin/stat-monthly

0 2 * * * [dspace]/bin/stat-report-general

0 2 * * * [dspace]/bin/stat-report-monthly

References

https://docs.huihoo.com/dspace/1.4.1/install.html