RePEc documentation: The monthly mailings and IDEAS top lists

The following procedure has not been automatized so far. 
Indeed, it involves four different computers...

Log into crefe.dse.uqam.ca, account adrepec, directory RePEc/local/stats.
ftp to www.unites.uqam.ca, account zimmermann, directory
logs_apache to get latest log.

Update the two first lines of apachestats.pl. Make sure the directory
mentioned in $NMonth exists.

run the following line:
perl apachestats.pl > apache.out &

(apache.out is the file sent out to repec-admin). This will take a while.

Go into the appropriate YYMM directory. ftp to swopec.hhs.se, account 
anonymous, directory LogEc
get stat-YYYY-MM.txt LogEc.dat
get author-YYYY-MM.txt LogEcA.dat
get series-YYYY-MM.txt LogEcS.dat

Go to RePEc/local/soft. Modify $Month and $AMonth in topperson.pl, then run
it. This will take a while. Do the same with maintainer.pl.
Go to RePEc/local/stat/YYMM/. ftp the top* files to www.unites.uqam.ca, 
account zimmermann, directory WWW/top/. ftp the Maintainer.rnk and 
Author.rnk files to fondue.dse.uqam.ca account zimm, directory 
web/repec/soft.

Log into fondue.dse.uqam.ca, account zimm, directory web/repec/soft.
Modify maintainemail.pl with appropriate messages that will be sent 
to all RePEc archive maintainers. Then run
perl maintainemail.pl &

This takes a little while. Modify now hopecemail.pl similarly, but be sure 
to update also %Articles and %Papers with the latest numbers. Then run
perl hopecemail.pl &

This can take several hours, there is a two second timeout between emails 
to prevent a sendmail overflow. If it hangs somewhere, just remove the sent
lines in Author.rnk and rerun.

Author: Christian Zimmermann, 2002-05-19