[Koha] Zebra rebuild frequency

[Paul A]

At 12:53 PM 11/15/2014 +1300, Mason James wrote:

>On 2014-11-15, at 9:49 AM, Paul A wrote:
>
> > At 04:20 PM 11/14/2014 +0000, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote:
> >> Paul, I'm sorry you suffered that on your Koha, but I've never seen 
> it. I'm
> >> only aware of a situation that could trigger that on NORMARC (recently
> >> fixed) using DOM indexing.
> >> [snip]
> >> > > > 3.8.5 (production) and from my test notes 3.12.various and 3.14.2
> >> > > required a
> >> > > > complete biblio re-index after deleting a biblio record.   Has this
> >> > been
> >> > > > fixed?
> >> > >
> >> > > I don't think that was ever true. [snip]
> >
> > It is true on our production box (and its backup; sandbox in other use) 
> Koha: 3.08.05.000 on Linux 3.2.0-31-generic (12.04LTS), Perl version: 
> 5.014002, MySQL version: mysql 5.5.24,
> > Apache version: 2.2.22, Zebra: 2.0.44
> >
> > Pls see 
> <http://opac.navalmarinearchive.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=kent+beyond+reef>, 
> two biblios for Kent, "Beyond the reef": one is good, the other has been 
> deleted, gives a 404 on the OPAC page, but will not go away from Zebra by 
> cron job alone (it will go away next time I CLI re-index.) I have a 
> feeling that when zebra says "incremental" it means just that -- adding 
> new data, but not deleting what has gone from MySQL.
> >
> > Slightly different case, 
> <http://opac.navalmarinearchive.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=steele+worcester> 
> -- this was produced by "overwriting" an existing biblio (old, 
> incomplete) with a new Z39.50, and adding an item -- it's the same 
> biblio, but the "dead" instance will not disappear until I re-index.
> >
>
>
> > This is a further example of the (for us) need to CLI re-index as the 
> cronjob does not handle it.
>
>
>you should show an example of your cron file - its probably just 
>misconfigured?


It's been running every minute for two years ;=} using

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 2>&1


paul at nelson:/$ grep CRON /var/log/syslog

[snip]Nov 14 21:22:01 nelson CRON[23795]: (koha) CMD 
(/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -b -a >> 
/tmp/cron_koha.log 2>&1)
Nov 14 21:23:01 nelson CRON[23842]: (koha) CMD 
(/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -b -a >> 
/tmp/cron_koha.log 2>&1)
Nov 14 21:24:01 nelson CRON[23930]: (koha) CMD 
(/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -b -a >> 
/tmp/cron_koha.log 2>&1)
Nov 14 21:25:01 nelson CRON[24054]: (koha) CMD 
(/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -b -a >> 
/tmp/cron_koha.log 2>&1)
Nov 14 21:26:01 nelson CRON[24139]: (koha) CMD 
(/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -b -a >> 
/tmp/cron_koha.log 2>&1)
Nov 14 21:27:01 nelson CRON[24182]: (koha) CMD 
(/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -b -a >> 
/tmp/cron_koha.log 2>&1)
Nov 14 21:28:02 nelson CRON[24310]: (koha) CMD 
(/usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -b -a >> 
/tmp/cron_koha.log 2>&1)

Best -- Paul


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