Automating your maintenance

Alerts

To automate sending out these alerts you must add some entries in the crontab (as for views). You need one set of these per archive.

For example (where $EPRINTS_ROOT is the root directory of your EPrints install):

 # 00:15 every morning
 15 0 * * * $EPRINTS_ROOT/bin/send_alerts repository-name daily
 # 00:30 every sunday morning
 30 0 * * 0 $EPRINTS_ROOT/bin/send_alerts repository-name weekly
 # 00:45 every first of the month
 45 0 1 * * $EPRINTS_ROOT/bin/send_alerts repository-name monthly

Note the spacing out so that all 3 don't start at once and hammer the database. You may wish to change the times, but we recommend early morning as the best time to send them (midnight-6am).