API:bin/send alerts
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NAME
send_alerts - Send out all the email alerts for a given frequency.
SYNOPSIS
send_alerts repository_id frequency [options]
DESCRIPTION
This script sends out all the alerts emails for the specified repository and frequency. frequency must be one of daily|weekly|monthly.
This script should probably be called from your "cron" system, soon after midnight. Something like:
# 00:15 every morning 15 0 * * * EPRINTS_PATH/bin/send_alerts dookuprints daily # 00:30 every sunday morning 30 0 * * 0 EPRINTS_PATH/bin/send_alerts dookuprints weekly # 00:45 every first of the month 45 0 1 * * EPRINTS_PATH/bin/send_alerts dookuprints monthly
Note the spacing out so that all 3 don't start at once and hammer the database.
ARGUMENTS
- repository_id
- The ID of the eprint repository to use.
- frequency
- Which "frequency" of alerts to send - the daily, weekly or monthly ones.
OPTIONS
- --help
- Print a brief help message and exit.
- --man
- Print the full manual page and then exit.
- --quiet
- Be vewwy vewwy quiet. This option will supress all output unless an error occurs.
- --verbose
- Explain in detail what is going on. May be repeated for greater effect.
- --version
- Output version information and exit.
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