[Koha] Zebra not updating biblios au tomatically in koha 3.8

Tomas Cohen Arazi tomascohen at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 04:06:00 NZST 2012


On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Paul <paul.a at aandc.org> wrote:
> 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.]

That's correct. A shell like bash needs those variables defined in its
scope to have them available. The scope of those variables defined in
the crontab includes JUST the commands run from the crontab (think of
it as a shell itself).

Saludos
To+


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