[Koha] zebraqueue and cron jobs

Chris Cormack chris at bigballofwax.co.nz
Wed Nov 3 10:52:40 NZDT 2010


On 3 November 2010 10:31, Paul A. <paul.a at aandc.org> wrote:
> Appendix 12.2 to the new Koha 3.2 manual suggests running rebuild_zebra.pl as a
> Cron job every n minutes. However, the zebraqueue_daemon appears to
> automatically update the biblio database as and when needed.
>
> Could someone kindly explain the necessity of the Cron job? We are having a few
> problems finding sufficient "system level" documentation.
>
Do NOT use the zebraqueue_daemon.
The cron job is a far safer option, the daemon is due to be removed
(or completely rewritten), it has memory leaks.

Chris


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