[Koha] Crontab - is that one tabs used to open beer cans?

Tomas Cohen Arazi tomascohen at gmail.com
Tue Jul 8 08:45:32 NZST 2014 

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El jul 7, 2014 4:57 PM, "Chris Cormack" <chrisc at catalyst.net.nz> escribió:

> Don't touch anything. Seriously.
>
> If you have a packaged install, it's all been done. Look in cron.d,
> cron.daily etc all the jobs have been set up.
>
> Chris
>
> On 8 July 2014 7:17:29 am NZST, Phillip Ponchot <pponchot at live.com> wrote:
> >The old koha was installed as a tarball on the old server so I believe
> >this makes it a source-based.  The new koha was installed via a
> >repository.  apt-get install koha-common.
> >
> >I did find in /etc/cron.d  a koha-common file.  The contents of this
> >file was:
>
> >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ># /etc/cron.d/koha-common
> >#
> ># Call koha-rebuild-zebra for each enabled Koha instance, to make sure
> >the
> ># Zebra indexes are up to date.
> >
> >SHELL=/bin/sh
> >PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> >
> >*/5 * * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/koha-rebuild-zebra &&
> >koha-rebuild-zebra -q $(koha-list --enabled)
> >*/15 * * * * root koha-foreach --enabled --email
> >/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/process_message_queue.pl
>
> >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >also there is a directory in  /user/share/koha/bin/cronjobs - are these
> >run by the koha program or do I have to schedule them in a crontab job?
> >
> >
>
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >advance_notices.pl                       holds
> >backup.sh
> >import_webservice_batch.pl
> >batch_anonymise.pl                     j2a.pl
> >build_browser_and_cloud.pl     longoverdue.pl
> >cart_to_shelf.pl                            MARC21_parse_test.pl
> >check-url.pl                                  overdue_notices.pl
> >check-url-quick.pl                       printoverdues.sh
> >cleanup_database.pl                  process_message_queue.pl
> >cloud-kw.pl                                  purge_suggestions.pl
> >cloud-sample.conf                      rss
> >CONFIGURE.gmail                       runreport.pl
> >create_koc_db.pl                        serialsUpdate.pl
> >crontab.example                         services_throttle.pl
> >delete_expired_opac_registrations.pl     social_data
> >delete_patrons.pl                        staticfines.pl
> >delete_unverified_opac_registrations.pl  thirdparty
> >fines.pl                                 update_totalissues.pl
> >gather_print_notices.pl
>
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >I just want to run automatically anything that needs to be done to keep
> >koha up to date.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >
> >Phillip
> >
> >> From: mtompset at hotmail.com
> >> To: pponchot at live.com
> >> CC: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> >> Subject: Re: [Koha] Crontab - is that one tabs used to open beer
> >cans?
> >> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:00:19 -0400
> >>
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> First, you still did not specify if you were doing a package
> >installation or
> >> a source-based installation. Which are you doing? If a source-based
> >> installation, then your hacked up solution is passable, though not
> >optimal.
> >>
> >> Second, let's reply to your points:
> >> > There is a "systems" crontab which ubuntu warns not to change.
> >>
> >> You can create crontab jobs at the system level without modifying
> >existing
> >> ones. Every file placed in the appropriate cron.* directory is its
> >own
> >> crontab file.
> >>
> >>
> >> > The crontab on the old server is sudo crotab -uroot -e where all
> >the koha
> >> > cronjobs are setup.
> >>
> >> This is a user crontab still. Was the old system a source-based
> >installation
> >> or was it a packages based installation? If you are finding user
> >crontabs,
> >> then it likely was a source-based installation. Why do you need to
> >have the
> >> new system as a source-based install? A package-based installation
> >sets up
> >> all the crontab jobs you need by default for you already. No crontab
> >job
> >> tweaks required.
> >>
> >> Seriously, please consider a packages based installation:
> >> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages
> >>
> >>
> >> And thirdly and lastly, did you actually go looking for crontab jobs
> >> manually? Like the following done on a package installation of Koha
> >that we
> >> are using in production.
> >>
> >> $ cd /etc/cron.d
> >> $ ls -la
> >> total 20
> >> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb 11 17:29 .
> >> drwxr-xr-x 98 root root 4096 Jul  7 17:39 ..
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  422 Nov 22  2013 koha-common
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  102 Jun 19  2012 .placeholder
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  396 Dec 16  2011 sysstat
> >> $ cat koha-common
> >> # /etc/cron.d/koha-common
> >> #
> >> # Call koha-rebuild-zebra for each enabled Koha instance, to make
> >sure the
> >> # Zebra indexes are up to date.
> >>
> >> SHELL=/bin/sh
> >> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> >>
> >> */5 * * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/koha-rebuild-zebra &&
> >> koha-rebuild-zebra -q $(koha-list --enabled)
> >> */15 * * * * root koha-foreach --enabled --email
> >> /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/process_message_queue.pl
> >> $ cd ../cron.daily
> >> $ ls -la
> >> total 84
> >> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jun 25 11:55 .
> >> drwxr-xr-x 98 root root  4096 Jul  7 17:39 ..
> >> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   633 Jul 12  2013 apache2
> >> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   219 Apr 10  2012 apport
> >> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 15399 Jul 16  2013 apt
> >> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   314 Apr 18  2013 aptitude
> >> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   502 Mar 31  2012 bsdmainutils
> >> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   256 Jan  7  2013 dpkg
> >> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  1410 Nov 22  2013 koha-common
> >> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   372 Oct  4  2011 logrotate
> >> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  1365 Dec 28  2012 man-db
> >> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   606 Aug 17  2011 mlocate
> >> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   249 Sep 12  2012 passwd
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   102 Jun 19  2012 .placeholder
> >> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  2417 Jul  1  2011 popularity-contest
> >> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  2947 Jun 19  2012 standard
> >> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   469 Dec 16  2011 sysstat
> >> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   214 Sep 10  2012 update-notifier-common
> >> $ cat koha-common
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> # /etc/cron.daily/koha-common -- Daily housekeeping tasks for all
> >Kohas.
> >> # Copyright 2010  Catalyst IT, Ltd
> >> #
> >> # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
> >modify
> >> # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
> >by
> >> # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
> >> # (at your option) any later version.
> >> #
> >> # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> >> # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> >> # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> >> # GNU General Public License for more details.
> >> #
> >> # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> >> # along with this program.  If not, see
> ><http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> >>
> >> koha-foreach --enabled --email
> >/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/overdue_noticest
> >> koha-foreach --enabled /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/fines.pl
> >> koha-foreach --enabled --email
> >/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/advance_noticesc
> >> koha-foreach --enabled
> >/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/holds/cancel_expired_hol
> >>  >/dev/null 2>&1
> >> koha-foreach --enabled
> >/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/services_throttle.pl >
> >> null 2>&1
> >> koha-foreach --enabled
> >> /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/cleanup_database.pl --sns --zebraqueue
> >10
> >> koha-foreach --enabled --noemail
> >> /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/cleanup_databl --mail
> >> koha-run-backups --days 2 --output /var/spool/koha
> >> $ cd ../cron.hourly
> >> $ ls -la
> >> total 16
> >> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb 11 17:29 .
> >> drwxr-xr-x 98 root root 4096 Jul  7 17:39 ..
> >> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  840 Nov 22  2013 koha-common
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  102 Jun 19  2012 .placeholder
> >> $ cat koha-common
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> # /etc/cron.hourly/koha-common -- Hourly housekeeping tasks for all
> >Kohas.
> >> # Copyright 2010  Catalyst IT, Ltd
> >> #
> >> # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
> >modify
> >> # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
> >by
> >> # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
> >> # (at your option) any later version.
> >> #
> >> # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> >> # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> >> # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> >> # GNU General Public License for more details.
> >> #
> >> # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> >> # along with this program.  If not, see
> ><http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> >>
> >>
> >> koha-foreach --enabled
> >> /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/holds/build_holds_queue.pl
> >>
> >> And checking out cron.monthly and cron.weekly failed to find a
> >koha-common
> >> file.
> >>
> >> And by the way, running a zebra process twice for the same instance
> >is a bad
> >> thing to do. So please check /etc/cron.* before you use what was
> >suggested
> >> by Vashil Patil.
> >>
> >> GPML,
> >> Mark Tompsett
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Phillip Ponchot
> >> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 1:21 PM
> >> To: Robin Sheat
> >> Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> >> Subject: Re: [Koha] Crontab - is that one tabs used to open beer
> >cans?
> >>
> >> There is a "systems" crontab which ubuntu warns not to change.  The
> >crontab
> >> on the old server is sudo crotab -uroot -e where all the koha
> >cronjobs are
> >> setup.  When I run this command on the new server there's info about
> >the
> >> crontab but there are no jobs in the crontab so I guess I'll have to
> >create
> >> them to get koha to run properly.
> >>
> >> Thanks for your help.  Phillip
> >>
> >> > From: robin at catalyst.net.nz
> >> > To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> >> > Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 16:14:40 +1200
> >> > Subject: Re: [Koha] Crontab - is that one tabs used to open beer
> >cans?
> >> >
> >> > Phillip Ponchot schreef op zo 06-07-2014 om 21:09 [-0700]:
> >> > > Thank you so much.  Its easier to use one that is already built
> >than
> >> > > to spend hours trying to build the crontab.  I appreciate you're
> >> > > sharing.  Phillip
> >> >
> >> > Go with what Mark said to start with: you're viewing the user
> >crontab
> >> > when you use crontab -e, and that's most likely not what you want.
> >> >
> >> > The Koha-specific one lives in /etc/crontab or as a file
> >> > within /etc/crontab.d.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Robin Sheat
> >> > Catalyst IT Ltd.
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> >> >
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