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Scheduled Tasks via Cron

Created by Tim Donohue on Dec 12, 2013

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Several DSpace features require that a script is run regularly (via cron, or similar). Some of these features include:

the e-mail subscription feature that alerts users of new items being deposited;
the 'media filter' tool, that generates thumbnails of images and extracts the full-text of documents for indexing;
the 'checksum checker' that tests the bitstreams in your repository for corruption;
the sitemap generator, which builds compact lists of content to lessen the load created by search engine indexing.

These regularly scheduled tasks should be setup via either cron (for Linux/Mac OSX) or Windows Task Scheduler (for Windows).

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