[Koha] cleanup_database.pl

[Reed Wade]

setting as an envariable in the crontab I should say

-reed


On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Reed Wade <reed at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
> setting MAILTO=youremailaddress might get you some error reports as well
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> -reed
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> 2010/5/20 Christopher Curry <ccurry at amphilsoc.org>:
>> Greg,
>>
>> Thanks for the point in the right direction.  I totally forgot about the ENV
>> variables.  That will probably take care of it and it explains why the
>> script didn't run.  I wish I could have seen the error message about not
>> being about to find the perl modules.  I would have recognized it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Christopher Curry
>> Assistant Technical Librarian / Assistant IT Officer
>>
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>> On 05/19/2010 12:15 PM, Greg Barniskis wrote:
>>
>> On 5/19/2010 10:34 AM, Christopher Curry wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> Here is my crontab:
>>
>> "0 3 * * 2-6 perl
>> /usr/local/src/kohaclone/misc/cronjobs/cleanup_database.pl -v --sessions
>> --zebraqueue 10 >>/var/log/koha/cleanup_database.log"
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Any obvious issues with my configuration? Any ideas how I can make this
>> work?
>>
>> Your crontab example doesn't show you setting the environmental variables
>> that may be needed (PERL5LIB and KOHA_CONF). See the examples from the web
>> page below and modify the paths as needed for your system. You likely have
>> these variables specified for your shell (so running the same command from
>> the shell works), but cron needs these values too.
>>
>> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:cronjobs
>>
>> Also, this may not apply to your OS, but whenever I have cron issues on
>> FreeBSD, ensuring that absolute paths are specified can help. So I'd
>> personally use "/usr/bin/perl" as the command, not just "perl", or even skip
>> that entirely and let the system figure it out from the specified script's
>> #! line (again, YMMV with OS flavor).
>>
>>
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