Hi Chris, It's like Joel says. In that scenario, you're pretty much limited to manually putting in the jobs on a per-instance basis. I think a few of us devs are trying to slowly add more system preference driven controls for controlling which cronjobs are run for which instances, so that koha-foreach iterates through the instances but they only run for particular instances, but it's very slow going. One thing to add... you'll want to use "koha-shell" to run your cronjob. Under the hood, all koha-foreach is really doing is running the following: koha-shell ${name} -c "${cmd}"; So you could add to /etc/cron.daily/koha-common the following: koha-shell INSTANCE -c "/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/longoverdue.pl --parameter 1 --parameter 2" David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 -----Original Message----- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:38:07 +0000 From: Chris Brown <chris@stayawake.co.uk> To: koha <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: [Koha] Running a koha cron job for only one of our libraries Message-ID: <CANo1qi1bdHVsmY1pfhN1s-TJDcRQUNYPo=_sEym_WG9=vbmNVg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hello, Our koha server supports 7 libraries, each with its own database. We are running Koha 22.11.20 We wish to run the cron job longoverdue.pl for only one of the instances. I notice that the cron jobs in /etc/cron.daily/koha-common all use the command "koha-foreach" to run the job for all the enabled instances. Is there a way we can just run the job for just one specific instance? Thanks! Chris Brown ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:35:47 -0500 From: "Coehoorn, Joel" <jcoehoorn@york.edu> To: Chris Brown <chris@stayawake.co.uk> Cc: koha <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] Running a koha cron job for only one of our libraries Message-ID: <CAMSeE4YsQBeQhZnK5ZAtj_hg6RMKiqUFaErZDwLdGSvL8RWhTQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" If the instances each have distinct users on the server, try running the job without the koha-foreach command from the crontab for that specific user. *Joel Coehoorn* Director of Information Technology *York University* Office: 402-363-5603 | jcoehoorn@york.edu | york.edu On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM Chris Brown <chris@stayawake.co.uk> wrote:

Hello,

Our koha server supports 7 libraries, each with its own database. We are running Koha 22.11.20

We wish to run the cron job longoverdue.pl for only one of the instances. I notice that the cron jobs in /etc/cron.daily/koha-common all use the command "koha-foreach" to run the job for all the enabled instances. Is there a way we can just run the job for just one specific instance?

Thanks!

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