[Koha] Zebra not updating biblios au tomatically in koha 3.8
Paul
paul.a at aandc.org
Wed Sep 5 04:01:48 NZST 2012
At 08:00 AM 9/4/2012 -0500, Randall Rowe wrote:
>Why would this require a server reboot?
Reboot or logout/login (I just played it safe...)
>Also .bashrc env vars dono't affect cron. If you want to insure that cron
>env variables are set properly edit that users crontab.
Very specifically Koha 3.8.4 on Ubuntu 12.04.1 64-bit (I am NOT necessarily
generalizing [1]); the env vars required for user=koha to run a koha-owned
cron do not survive reboot. A "proper edit" of crontab gives (see Wiki,
install, etc):
KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
KOHAPATH=/usr/share/koha
PERL5LIB=$KOHAPATH/lib
*/1 * * * * koha $KOHAPATH/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -a -b
-z &> /dev/null
After a reboot (that does happen in real life, particularly on my sandbox
where I established this "proof of concept") the env vars do not survive:
koha at server:/$ printenv|grep koha
USER=koha
MAIL=/var/mail/koha
HOME=/home/koha
LOGNAME=koha
and the cron rebuild_zebra.pl -a -b -z fails [Can't locate C4/Context.pm in
@INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2
/usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5
/usr/lib/perl/5.14 /usr/share/perl/5.14 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at
/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl line 6.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl line 6.]
So, add the env vars to koha's .bashrc so that it reads:
$ cat /home/koha/.bashrc
export PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib
export KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
and after reboot:
koha at server:/$ printenv | grep koha
PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib
USER=koha
MAIL=/var/mail/koha
KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
HOME=/home/koha
LOGNAME=koha
and the cron rebuild_zebra.pl -a -b -z is fully functional.
Verify: all permutations of rem'ing {first 3 lines of cron job} and {2
lines of koha/.bashrc} confirms the above. CONCLUSION: to renew
PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib and KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml after
reboot, the 'export' must be in /home/koha/.bashrc
Now, leave the two 'export' lines in /home/koha/.bashrc and modify the cron to:
paul at server:/etc/cron.d$ cat koha
# KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
# KOHAPATH=/usr/share/koha
# PERL5LIB=$KOHAPATH/lib
*/1 * * * * koha $KOHAPATH/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -a -b
-z &> /dev/null
Works perfectly .... QED
>*nix != windoze
Not sure it's relevant here, but I've been preaching that to the choir for
twenty + years (first appearance of Windows 2|3; I thought the first DOS
GUI looked promising ;=} .) I originally started on ALGOL and Fortran
(smattering of COBOL) in the late 50s, until Unix was recompiled in c in
the early 70s. I never got the opportunity of using the original assembly
language version ...
>server reboot not usually necessary. When changing .bashrc files all that
>is required is to logout and log back in.
Agreed, see above.
[1] -- BTW, our production server runs Koha 3.6.1 on Ubuntu (10.04 LTS part
updated to 11.10) and uses the same construct.
Best - Paul
>Randy Rowe
>Lincoln City Libraries I.T.
>
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>
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>
>---- Original Message ----
>From: "Paul" <paul.a at aandc.org>
>Sent: 8/31/2012 3:40:10 PM
>To: "Elaine Bradtke" <eb at efdss.org>, Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>Subject: Re: [Koha] Zebra not updating biblios automatically in koha 3.8
>
>At 08:37 PM 8/31/2012 +0100, Elaine Bradtke wrote:
> >My colleagues are reporting a similar problem with 3.8.4
> >Downloading and editing of records seems to function normally, but
> >once it is saved, none of the usual searches brings it up, and
> >running a report on recently catalogued items give zero results.
> >
> >mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.63, for debian-linux-gnu (i486) using
> readline 6.1
> > Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)
> >Zebra version:Zebra 2.0.50
> >
> >Any ideas?
>
>I have found that 3.8.x may have problems with env vars not being available
>to cron. Please try editing:
>
>sudo vi /home/koha/.bashrc
>
>Add the following two lines:
>
>export PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib
>export KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
>:x
>
>then reboot your server. This in itself cannot do any harm, and could well
>cure your problem.
>
>Best - Paul
>
> >Elaine Bradtke
> >
> >On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:05 PM, sunil sharma <koha.sunil007 at gmail.com>
> >wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > I installed Koha 3.8.02 and also check latest version of koha 3.8.04 on
> > > centos 6.2, The same problem I am facing in both of these version. when I
> > > enter any new biblio, it is not updated automatically to zebra, I am
> using
> > > zebra latest version 2.0.54 and all cronjobs are set. I also manually
> check
> > > zebra functioning by ./rebuild_zebra.pl -b -a -v -z but it shows export
> > > biblios zero, but I already added some bilios to koha yet it shows
> exported
> > > zero. And, when I use ./rebuild_zebra.pl -b -a -v -r then it rebuild all
> > > the biblios and my all added biblio shows in result i.e. exported 10
> > > biblios. My question is that why ./rebuild_zebra.pl -b -a -v -z
> option is
> > > not working. where is the problem, because my zebra working fine in
> 3.6, is
> > > there any problem in koha 3.8. or any other issue. Please help me out.
> > >
> > > Thanx in advance.
> > >
> > > Sunil
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