diff --git a/participatorio-utils/admin_scripts-crontab/create-permission_dspace_logs.sh b/participatorio-utils/admin_scripts-crontab/create-permission_dspace_logs.sh
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+++ b/participatorio-utils/admin_scripts-crontab/create-permission_dspace_logs.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+DSPACE_HOME="/home/dspace/webapp"
+NEXT_DAY_DATE=$( date --date="tomorrow" +%Y-%m-%d )
+
+OWNER="dspace:tomcat7"
+
+touch ${DSPACE_HOME}/log/cocoon.log.${NEXT_DAY_DATE} && chown ${OWNER} ${DSPACE_HOME}/log/cocoon.log.${NEXT_DAY_DATE}
+touch ${DSPACE_HOME}/log/solr.log.${NEXT_DAY_DATE} && chown ${OWNER} ${DSPACE_HOME}/log/solr.log.${NEXT_DAY_DATE}
+touch ${DSPACE_HOME}/log/checker.log.${NEXT_DAY_DATE} && chown ${OWNER} ${DSPACE_HOME}/log/checker.log.${NEXT_DAY_DATE}
+touch ${DSPACE_HOME}/log/dspace.log.${NEXT_DAY_DATE} && chown ${OWNER} ${DSPACE_HOME}/log/dspace.log.${NEXT_DAY_DATE}
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/participatorio-utils/admin_scripts-crontab/dspace_crontab.txt b/participatorio-utils/admin_scripts-crontab/dspace_crontab.txt
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+++ b/participatorio-utils/admin_scripts-crontab/dspace_crontab.txt
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+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# BASED ON:
+# https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Scheduled+Tasks+via+Cron
+#
+# HOW TO USE:
+# To add it to crontab, execute "$ crontab e" as dspace user and add the following content to the end of file
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#-----------------
+# GLOBAL VARIABLES
+#-----------------
+# Full path of your local DSpace Installation (e.g. /home/dspace or /dspace or similar)
+DSPACE = /home/dspace/webapp
+ 
+# Shell to use
+SHELL=/bin/sh
+ 
+# Add all major 'bin' directories to path
+PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
+ 
+# Set JAVA_OPTS with defaults for DSpace Cron Jobs.
+# Only provides 512MB of memory by default (which should be enough for most sites).
+JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx512M -Xms512M -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"
+ 
+#--------------
+# HOURLY TASKS (Recommended to be run multiple times per day, if possible)
+# At a minimum these tasks should be run daily.
+#--------------
+ 
+# Regenerate DSpace Sitemaps every 8 hours (12AM, 8AM, 4PM).
+# SiteMaps ensure that your content is more findable in Google, Google Scholar, and other major search engines.
+0 0,8,16 * * * $DSPACE/bin/dspace generate-sitemaps > /dev/null
+ 
+#----------------
+# DAILY TASKS
+# (Recommended to be run once per day. Feel free to tweak the scheduled times below.)
+#----------------
+ 
+# Update the OAI-PMH index with the newest content (and re-optimize that index) at midnight every day
+# NOTE: ONLY NECESSARY IF YOU ARE RUNNING OAI-PMH
+# (This ensures new content is available via OAI-PMH and ensures the OAI-PMH index is optimized for better performance)
+#0 0 * * * $DSPACE/bin/dspace oai import -o > /dev/null
+ 
+# Clean and Update the Discovery indexes at midnight every day
+# (This ensures that any deleted documents are cleaned from the Discovery search/browse index)
+0 0 * * * $DSPACE/bin/dspace index-discovery > /dev/null
+ 
+# Re-Optimize the Discovery indexes at 12:30 every day
+# (This ensures that the Discovery Solr Index is re-optimized for better performance)
+30 0 * * * $DSPACE/bin/dspace index-discovery -o > /dev/null
+ 
+# Cleanup Web Spiders from DSpace Statistics Solr Index at 01:00 every day
+# NOTE: ONLY NECESSARY IF YOU ARE RUNNING SOLR STATISTICS
+# (This removes any known web spiders from your usage statistics)
+0 1 * * * $DSPACE/bin/dspace stats-util -i
+ 
+# Re-Optimize DSpace Statistics Solr Index at 01:30 every day
+# NOTE: ONLY NECESSARY IF YOU ARE RUNNING SOLR STATISTICS 
+# (This ensures that the Statistics Solr Index is re-optimized for better performance)
+30 1 * * * $DSPACE/bin/dspace stats-util -o
+ 
+# Send out subscription e-mails at 02:00 every day
+# (This sends an email to any users who have "subscribed" to a Collection, notifying them of newly added content.)
+0 2 * * * $DSPACE/bin/dspace sub-daily
+ 
+# Run the media filter at 03:00 every day.
+# (This task ensures that thumbnails are generated for newly add images,
+# and also ensures full text search is available for newly added PDF/Word/PPT/HTML documents)
+0 3 * * * $DSPACE/bin/dspace filter-media
+ 
+# Run any Curation Tasks queued from the Admin UI at 04:00 every day
+# (Ensures that any curation task that an administrator "queued" from the Admin UI is executed
+# asynchronously behind the scenes)
+0 4 * * * $DSPACE/bin/dspace curate -q admin_ui
+ 
+#----------------
+# WEEKLY TASKS
+# (Recommended to be run once per week, but can be run more or less frequently, based on your local needs/policies)
+#----------------
+# Run the checksum checker at 04:00 every Sunday
+# By default it runs through every file (-l) and also prunes old results (-p)
+# (This re-verifies the checksums of all files stored in DSpace. If any files have been changed/corrupted, checksums will differ.)
+0 4 * * * $DSPACE/bin/dspace checker -l -p
+# NOTE: LARGER SITES MAY WISH TO USE DIFFERENT OPTIONS. The above "-l" option tells DSpace to check *everything*.
+# If your site is very large, you may need to only check a portion of your content per week. The below commented-out task
+# would instead check all the content it can within *one hour*. The next week it would start again where it left off.
+#0 4 * * 0 $DSPACE/bin/dspace checker -d 1h -p
+  
+# Mail the results of the checksum checker (see above) to the configured "mail.admin" at 05:00 every Sunday.
+# (This ensures the system administrator is notified whether any checksums were found to be different.)
+0 5 * * 0 $DSPACE/bin/dspace checker-emailer
+ 
+#----------------
+# MONTHLY TASKS
+# (Recommended to be run once per month, but can be run more or less frequently, based on your local needs/policies)
+#----------------
+# Permanently delete any bitstreams flagged as "deleted" in DSpace, on the first of every month at 01:00
+# (This ensures that any files which were deleted from DSpace are actually removed from your local filesystem.
+#  By default they are just marked as deleted, but are not removed from the filesystem.)
+0 1 1 * * $DSPACE/bin/dspace cleanup > /dev/null
+ 
+#----------------
+# YEARLY TASKS (Recommended to be run once per year)
+#----------------
+# At 2:00AM every January 1, "shard" the DSpace Statistics Solr index.
+# This ensures each year has its own Solr index, which improves performance.
+# NOTE: ONLY NECESSARY IF YOU ARE RUNNING SOLR STATISTICS
+# NOTE: This is scheduled here for 2:00AM so that it happens *after* the daily cleaning & re-optimization of this index.
+0 2 1 1 * $DSPACE/bin/dspace stats-util -s
diff --git a/participatorio-utils/admin_scripts-crontab/root_crontab.txt b/participatorio-utils/admin_scripts-crontab/root_crontab.txt
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+++ b/participatorio-utils/admin_scripts-crontab/root_crontab.txt
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+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# HOW TO USE:
+# To add it to crontab, execute "$ crontab e" as root user and add the following content to the end of file
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#Create and adjust permissions of dspace's logs to avoid permission problems
+30 23   * * *   /home/dspace/admin-scripts/create-permission_dspace_logs.sh