Data provided by the University's student information system arrives as email to a specific staff member's email account (IsaacMorland). A procmail filter splits off the data extract emails and sends them to an alias on cscf.cs
. This alias in turn is piped to a program in the odyssey_dataimport
package.
Since all of these extracts are provided by a common mechanism and use similar conventions, they are processed in a standardized way. Full details are at PeopleSoftExtractHandling.
-- IsaacMorland - 02 Jan 2008