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diff --git a/doc/INSTALL.md b/doc/INSTALL.md index e466edd55..ef70f8139 100644 --- a/doc/INSTALL.md +++ b/doc/INSTALL.md @@ -336,8 +336,20 @@ like `!!(*= $this *)!!`. The variables are: * `user`: the user that the software runs as * `site`: a string to identify your alaveteli instance -There is a dumb python script at `script/make-crontab` which you can -edit and run to do some basic substitution for you. +There is a rake task that will help to rewrite this file into +one that is useful to you, which can be invoked with: + + bundle exec rake config_files:convert_crontab \ + DEPLOY_USER=deploy \ + VHOST_DIR=/dir/above/alaveteli \ + VCSPATH=alaveteli \ + SITE=alaveteli \ + CRONTAB=config/crontab-example > crontab + +You should change the `DEPLOY_USER`, `VHOST_DIR`, `VCSPATH` and +`SITE` environment variables to match your server and +installation. You should also edit the resulting `crontab` file +to customize the `MAILTO` variable. One of the cron jobs refers to a script at `/etc/init.d/foi-alert-tracks`. This is an init script, a copy of diff --git a/script/make-crontab b/script/make-crontab deleted file mode 100755 index d214f1485..000000000 --- a/script/make-crontab +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -#!/usr/bin/env python -import re - -mailto = "recipient-of-any-errors@localhost" -user = "user-to-run-as" -location = "/path/to/alaveteli" - -template = open("config/crontab-example").read() -template = re.sub(r"MAILTO=.*", "MAILTO=%s" % mailto, template) -template = template.replace("!!(*= $user *)!!", user) -template = re.sub(r"/data/vhost/.*/script", location + "/script", template) - -print template - - - |