Automated tasks

Campsite has tools that perform the following automated tasks:

1. sending emails to administrative users containing the latest events that took place in Campsite
2. sending emails to subscribers alerting them when their subscription ends
3. automatic changing of the status of issues and articles scheduled for certain actions
4. automatic indexing the article content (update the search engine database)
5. generating statistics
   

The automated tasks are scheduled using the crontab utility, run as apache user (www-data on some systems).

1. Sending emails to administrative users containing the latest events that took place in Campsite is managed by the utility events-notifier located in Campsite's bin directory. This utility is scheduled to run every two minutes.

2. Sending emails to subscribers alerting them when their subscription ends is managed by the utility subscription-notifier located in Campsite's bin directory. This utility is scheduled to run every eight hours.

3. Automatic changing of the status of issues and articles scheduled for certain actions (publish/unpublish/show in front page etc.) is managed by the utility campsite-autopublish located in Campsite's bin directory. This utility is scheduled to run every minute.

4. Automatic indexing the article content is managed by the utility campsite-indexer located in Campsite's bin directory. This utility is scheduled to run every four hours.

5. The statistics gathering script is managed by the campsite-statistics utility, located in the Campsite's bin directory. This utility is scheduled to run every four hours.