[Koha] How to change fine calculation timing: another appeal

[Robin Sheat]

Vimal Kumar V. schreef op do 29-11-2012 om 06:32 [+0530]:
>But one problem still haunting me, change of default time fixed to run
> fines.pl cron.
> Many users like to change the fine calculation  to another convenient time
> (e.g. 10 AM).
> 
Assuming you mean the Debian packages, the fine calculation crons are
installed in /etc/cron.daily/koha-common

The system crontab (/etc/crontab) specifies when daily jobs are run,
however a better idea to try would be to install "anacron". This handles
the running of daily cron jobs in a way that is more suited to computers
that aren't on 24/7. Basically, if the daily cron jobs haven't been run
for about a day, it'll do them shortly after boot, and every day from
then.

Simply installing this on a debian (and probably Ubuntu) system should
just magically work. (caveat emptor: I haven't actually tried this
within the past ~5 years or so. YMMV.)

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