[RAS] Frank Westermann affiliations (fwd)

Thomas Krichel krichel at openlib.org
Tue Aug 25 05:44:42 CDT 2009


  Ivan Kurmanov writes
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Christian
> Zimmermann<christian.zimmermann at uconn.edu> wrote:
> > Thanks! How do you force update? And how do we know whether there are other
> > cases like this? Would they really sort out by themselves over time?
> 
> you force update by passing a number to updareq, i think it is
> documented, but i don't remember the details.
> there might be a lot cases like that -- you'd want to make sure
> something like 2 or 3 weeks is TOO OLD in RePEc::Index (not 2 or 3
> months) and then make sure a general ("/") update goes through
> successfully. Then all such cases should be automatically sorted out.
> 

  Yes, it is the too_old parementer. By default it's a week,
  but this let to a lot of i/o, so I set it to something like
  a year in the crontabs.

  I am snowed under this week. I will look at the story
  next week.

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                                RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
                                               skype: thomaskrichel



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