Added a crontab file to be symlinked from /etc/cron.d/, and related scripts to be run from cron. Requires refactoring of CronRunner and NightRunner scripts before activation, to avoid duplicate runs.

 - Legacy-Id: 11114

Author: levkowetz

bin/daily

@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# Nightly datatracker jobs
+# Nightly datatracker jobs.
+# 
+# This script is expected to be triggered by cron from
+# $DTDIR/etc/cron.d/datatracker which should be symlinked from
+# /etc/cron.d/
 
 DTDIR=/a/www/ietf-datatracker/web
-
 cd $DTDIR/
 
 # Set up the virtual environment

etc/cron.d/datatracker

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 # -*- indent-with-tabs: 0 -*-
 #
-# Update the local copies of the IETF rfc and draft repositories
-# 
-# Every hour
+# This file controls the datatracker-related cronjobs.  It's intended to be
+# symlinked into /etc/init.d/ .  It is a crontab in order to be able to add
+# actions which don't fit into the daily or hourly pattern.  It, and daily
+# and hourly scripts it triggers, are part of the datatracker repository in
+# order to handle cronjob changes that go together with code changes well.
 
 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
 

ietf/settings.py

@@ -45,9 +45,6 @@
 
 ALLOWED_HOSTS = [".ietf.org", ".ietf.org.", "209.208.19.216", "4.31.198.44", ]
 
-# This is used to construct the path to manage.py, in order to run management
-# commands, for instance in etc/cron.d/datatracker
-DEPLOYMENT_DIR = '/a/www/ietf-datatracker'
 
 # Server name of the tools server
 TOOLS_SERVER = 'tools.' + IETF_DOMAIN