Re: [Koha] Crontab - is that one tabs used to open beer cans?

7 Jul 2014

      Thanks for sticking with me.  Sometimes I can be a little dense.  I see the koha jobs in cron.daily and realize based on the info that you've given me that I don't have to setup the cron jobs.  I'm a little relieved that I don't - smile. 

Thanks everyone for your help.  Thank you especially Tomas. 

Phillip

Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 17:45:32 -0300
Subject: Re: [Koha] Crontab - is that one tabs used to open beer cans?
From: tomascohen@gmail.com
To: chrisc@catalyst.net.nz
CC: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz; pponchot@live.com; mtompset@hotmail.com

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El jul 7, 2014 4:57 PM, "Chris Cormack" <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz> escribió:

Don't touch anything. Seriously.

If you have a packaged install, it's all been done. Look in cron.d, cron.daily etc all the jobs have been set up.

Chris

On 8 July 2014 7:17:29 am NZST, Phillip Ponchot <pponchot@live.com> wrote:
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The old koha was installed as a tarball on the old server so I believe
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this makes it a source-based.  The new koha was installed via a
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repository.  apt-get install koha-common.
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I did find in /etc/cron.d  a koha-common file.  The contents of this
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file was:
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# /etc/cron.d/koha-common
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# Call koha-rebuild-zebra for each enabled Koha instance, to make sure
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the
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SHELL=/bin/sh
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PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
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*/5 * * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/koha-rebuild-zebra &&
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koha-rebuild-zebra -q $(koha-list --enabled)
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*/15 * * * * root koha-foreach --enabled --email
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/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/process_message_queue.pl
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also there is a directory in  /user/share/koha/bin/cronjobs - are these
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run by the koha program or do I have to schedule them in a crontab job?
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advance_notices.pl                       holds
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backup.sh
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import_webservice_batch.pl
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batch_anonymise.pl                     j2a.pl
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build_browser_and_cloud.pl     longoverdue.pl
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cart_to_shelf.pl                            MARC21_parse_test.pl
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check-url.pl                                  overdue_notices.pl
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check-url-quick.pl                       printoverdues.sh
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cleanup_database.pl                  process_message_queue.pl
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cloud-kw.pl                                  purge_suggestions.pl
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cloud-sample.conf                      rss
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CONFIGURE.gmail                       runreport.pl
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create_koc_db.pl                        serialsUpdate.pl
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crontab.example                         services_throttle.pl
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delete_expired_opac_registrations.pl     social_data
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delete_patrons.pl                        staticfines.pl
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delete_unverified_opac_registrations.pl  thirdparty
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fines.pl                                 update_totalissues.pl
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gather_print_notices.pl
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I just want to run automatically anything that needs to be done to keep
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koha up to date.
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Thanks
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Phillip
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From: mtompset@hotmail.com
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To: pponchot@live.com
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CC: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
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Subject: Re: [Koha] Crontab - is that one tabs used to open beer
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cans?
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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:00:19 -0400
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Greetings,
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First, you still did not specify if you were doing a package
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installation or
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a source-based installation. Which are you doing? If a source-based
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installation, then your hacked up solution is passable, though not
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optimal.
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Second, let's reply to your points:
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There is a "systems" crontab which ubuntu warns not to change.
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You can create crontab jobs at the system level without modifying
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existing
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ones. Every file placed in the appropriate cron.* directory is its
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own
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crontab file.
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The crontab on the old server is sudo crotab -uroot -e where all
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the koha
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cronjobs are setup.
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This is a user crontab still. Was the old system a source-based
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installation
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or was it a packages based installation? If you are finding user
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crontabs,
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then it likely was a source-based installation. Why do you need to
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have the
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new system as a source-based install? A package-based installation
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sets up
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all the crontab jobs you need by default for you already. No crontab
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job
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tweaks required.
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Seriously, please consider a packages based installation:
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http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages
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And thirdly and lastly, did you actually go looking for crontab jobs
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manually? Like the following done on a package installation of Koha
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that we
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are using in production.
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$ cd /etc/cron.d
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$ ls -la
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total 20
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drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb 11 17:29 .
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drwxr-xr-x 98 root root 4096 Jul  7 17:39 ..
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-rw-r--r--  1 root root  422 Nov 22  2013 koha-common
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-rw-r--r--  1 root root  102 Jun 19  2012 .placeholder
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-rw-r--r--  1 root root  396 Dec 16  2011 sysstat
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$ cat koha-common
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# /etc/cron.d/koha-common
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# Call koha-rebuild-zebra for each enabled Koha instance, to make
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sure the
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# Zebra indexes are up to date.
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SHELL=/bin/sh
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PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
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*/5 * * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/koha-rebuild-zebra &&
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koha-rebuild-zebra -q $(koha-list --enabled)
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*/15 * * * * root koha-foreach --enabled --email
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/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/process_message_queue.pl
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$ cd ../cron.daily
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$ ls -la
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total 84
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drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jun 25 11:55 .
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drwxr-xr-x 98 root root  4096 Jul  7 17:39 ..
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-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   633 Jul 12  2013 apache2
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-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   219 Apr 10  2012 apport
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-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 15399 Jul 16  2013 apt
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-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   314 Apr 18  2013 aptitude
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-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   502 Mar 31  2012 bsdmainutils
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-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   256 Jan  7  2013 dpkg
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-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  1410 Nov 22  2013 koha-common
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-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   372 Oct  4  2011 logrotate
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-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  1365 Dec 28  2012 man-db
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-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   606 Aug 17  2011 mlocate
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-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   249 Sep 12  2012 passwd
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-rw-r--r--  1 root root   102 Jun 19  2012 .placeholder
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-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  2417 Jul  1  2011 popularity-contest
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-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  2947 Jun 19  2012 standard
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-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   469 Dec 16  2011 sysstat
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-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   214 Sep 10  2012 update-notifier-common
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$ cat koha-common
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#!/bin/sh
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# /etc/cron.daily/koha-common -- Daily housekeeping tasks for all
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Kohas.
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# Copyright 2010  Catalyst IT, Ltd
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# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
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modify
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by
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# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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koha-foreach --enabled --email
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/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/overdue_noticest
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koha-foreach --enabled /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/fines.pl
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koha-foreach --enabled --email
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/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/advance_noticesc
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koha-foreach --enabled
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/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/holds/cancel_expired_hol
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/dev/null 2>&1
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koha-foreach --enabled
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/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/services_throttle.pl >
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null 2>&1
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koha-foreach --enabled
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/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/cleanup_database.pl --sns --zebraqueue
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koha-foreach --enabled --noemail
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/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/cleanup_databl --mail
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koha-run-backups --days 2 --output /var/spool/koha
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$ cd ../cron.hourly
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$ ls -la
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total 16
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drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb 11 17:29 .
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drwxr-xr-x 98 root root 4096 Jul  7 17:39 ..
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-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  840 Nov 22  2013 koha-common
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-rw-r--r--  1 root root  102 Jun 19  2012 .placeholder
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$ cat koha-common
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#!/bin/sh
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# /etc/cron.hourly/koha-common -- Hourly housekeeping tasks for all
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Kohas.
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# Copyright 2010  Catalyst IT, Ltd
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# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
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modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
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by
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# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program.  If not, see
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<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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koha-foreach --enabled
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/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/holds/build_holds_queue.pl
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And checking out cron.monthly and cron.weekly failed to find a
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koha-common
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file.
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And by the way, running a zebra process twice for the same instance
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is a bad
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thing to do. So please check /etc/cron.* before you use what was
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suggested
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by Vashil Patil.
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GPML,
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Mark Tompsett
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-----Original Message-----
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From: Phillip Ponchot
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Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 1:21 PM
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To: Robin Sheat
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Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
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Subject: Re: [Koha] Crontab - is that one tabs used to open beer
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cans?
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There is a "systems" crontab which ubuntu warns not to change.  The
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crontab
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on the old server is sudo crotab -uroot -e where all the koha
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cronjobs are
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setup.  When I run this command on the new server there's info about
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the
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crontab but there are no jobs in the crontab so I guess I'll have to
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create
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them to get koha to run properly.
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Thanks for your help.  Phillip
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From: robin@catalyst.net.nz
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To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 16:14:40 +1200
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Subject: Re: [Koha] Crontab - is that one tabs used to open beer
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Phillip Ponchot schreef op zo 06-07-2014 om 21:09 [-0700]:
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Thank you so much.  Its easier to use one that is already built
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to spend hours trying to build the crontab.  I appreciate you're
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sharing.  Phillip
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Go with what Mark said to start with: you're viewing the user
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when you use crontab -e, and that's most likely not what you want.
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The Koha-specific one lives in /etc/crontab or as a file
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