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1.1     ! raeburn     1: \label{Domain_Crontab_Entries}
        !             2: \begin{document}
        !             3: When LON-CAPA is installed a file named loncapa is written to /etc/cron.d.
        !             4: The frequency and timing of execution of scripts included in this
        !             5: loncapa crontab file can be modified to suit the needs of your domain.
        !             6: The scripts, which are all run as the user 'www', are as follows: 
        !             7: 
        !             8: \begin{itemize}
        !             9: \item /home/httpd/perl/loncron run daily at 5.10 am This updates the list
        !            10: of servers in the LON-CAPA cluster to which your domain belongs. All
        !            11: servers in this list should be contactable, and will have the ability
        !            12: to host user sessions for users in the domain, as well as being available,
        !            13: if designated as library servers, to return responses to remote searches
        !            14: for files housed there which have been contributed to the LON-CAPA
        !            15: content repository. Connections to all servers are re-evaluated by
        !            16: loncron in case some machines had become unavailable within the last
        !            17: 24 hours, and had therefore been flagged as temporarily offline.
        !            18: \item /usr/local/loncapa/bin/CHECKRPMS runs every other day at 3.10 am This
        !            19: file automates the process of checking for available updates to LON-CAPA
        !            20: systems. The distprobe script, installed as a part of LON-CAPA, is
        !            21: used to determine the Linux distribution installed on the server,
        !            22: which in turn dictates which utitlity (yum, up2date, you or rug) is
        !            23: called to perform the package check.
        !            24: \item /home/httpd/perl/searchcat.pl run every other day at 1.10 am /home/httpd/perl/searchcat.pl
        !            25: This script goes through a loncapa resource directory and gathers
        !            26: metadata. The metadata is entered into a SQL database. Repopulate
        !            27: and refresh the metadata database used for the search catalog.
        !            28: \item /home/httpd/perl/cleanup\_database.pl run daily at 2.13 am cleanup\_database.pl
        !            29: drops tables from the LON-CAPA MySQL database if their comment is
        !            30: 'temporary' and they have not been modified in a given time (defalt
        !            31: is 2 days).
        !            32: \item /home/httpd/perl/cleanup\_file\_caches.pl run daily at 1.05 am Remove
        !            33: temporary files from the LON-CAPA print spool, the multidownload zip
        !            34: spool, and userfiles cache.
        !            35: \item /home/httpd/perl/Autoenroll.pl run daily at 1.30 am Run the auto enrollment
        !            36: script.
        !            37: \item (/home/httpd/perl/Autoupdate.pl run daily at 3.30 pm Run the auto
        !            38: update script to update first name, last name etc. information. 
        !            39: \end{itemize}