There are a few quirks with editing cron. I am not familiar with ctrl-o to write. See short tutorial at http://www.jiltin.com/index.php/scripts-unix/crontab-quick-complete-referenc... Also there is some discussion of a similar problem at http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=10714.0 Agnes nitesh rijal wrote:
This is what I did......
I used SSH to log in to my server that hosts koha......
# ssh 202.70.79.13
# cd /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs
# crontab -u root crontab.example
#crontab -u kohaadmin crontab.example
#crontab -e
Then I changed the PERL5LIB, KOHA_CONF and KOHA_CRON_PATH accordingly.
Then pressed Ctrl+O to writeout and then Ctrl+X to exit.
What happens is that when I close the SSH session and re-enter using SSH, the crontab.example rolls back to the previous content.....all the changes that I made to it are no there......what is this problem???
Is this obvious or have I made some mistakes???
Please Help.
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Vimal Kumar <vimal0212@gmail.com <mailto:vimal0212@gmail.com>> wrote:
Crontab settings are necessary for fine calculation and other related task scheduling. To make Koha cronjobs functional, follow the steps, Open a terminal and try the commands,
localhost:~# su localhost:~# cd /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs localhost:~# crontab -u root crontab.example localhost:~# crontab -u username crontab.example
Above mentioned steps should be try after the Koha installation.
localhost:~# crontab -e
change the following values there,
# ENVIRONMENT: PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
# Some additional variables to save you typing KOHA_CRON_PATH = /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs
Remember to save the file.
Enable Koha > System preferences > Circulation > Finesmode > production
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