[Koha] search quits working

Scott Owen sowen at edzone.net
Thu Aug 25 01:18:58 NZST 2016


So.....if a guy *was* going to add a zebra load line of "koha-start-zebra
<instance>" to a cron job..... and try to get said job to run daily @ 7:55AM

Any suggestions of where/how/what to accomplish this ??

Is there an existing cron.daily (in the etc dir ?) that I should use.....or
does Koha have it's own crontab/cron settings ?






On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Mark Tompsett <mtompset at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> If you were going to supplement your issues with a cron job, 6:00am
> wouldn't
> fix your problem for a whole day. Since logrotate runs at around 7:35AM, it
> would make more sense to trigger something like around 7:55AM. Sure it's 20
> minutes of index-less-ness, but you can be assured it will be there.
>
> Trying to start zebra again with the appropriate scripts will not cause a
> hiccup. Though, you'll want to redirect output to /dev/null, so you don't
> get flooded with cronjob emails.
>
> GPML,
> Mark Tompsett
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Owen
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 8:27 AM
> To: koha
> Subject: Re: [Koha] search quits working
>
> Hi all,
>
> I still seem to be having some issues with logrotate and the zebra service
> starting up....
>
> I have tried both of the options discussed in bug #
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16885
>
> (modify postrotate, and modify koha-stop-zebra)
>
> In my case, neither (or both) of them seems to be a "reliable" fix.
>
> Is there any way I could kludge together some sort of CRON job to reload
> the zerbra service daily ?? (at say 6:00AM) or would this be a bad thing to
> do ..... ie: if zebra IS running, will trying to load it again cause a
> major hiccup ??
>
> any other ideas on this ?? With students returning soon, I'd really like to
> get this off my "to-do" list.   :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> -S
>
>
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>
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>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Scott Owen <sowen at edzone.net> wrote:
>
> > Still no joy on this.
> >
> > Zebra still seems to not reload correctly.
> >
> > my /usr/sbin/koha-stop-zebra file looks like the following:
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > #!/bin/sh
> > #
> > # koha-stop-zebra - Stop Zebra for named Koha instances
> > # 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/>.
> >
> > set -e
> >
> > # include helper functions
> > if [ -f "/usr/share/koha/bin/koha-functions.sh" ]; then
> >     . "/usr/share/koha/bin/koha-functions.sh"
> > else
> >     echo "Error: /usr/share/koha/bin/koha-functions.sh not present."
> 1>&2
> >     exit 1
> > fi
> >
> > stop_zebra_instance()
> > {
> >     local instancename=$1
> >
> >     local PIDFILE="/var/run/koha/${instancename}/${instancename}-
> > koha-zebra.pid"
> >     echo "Stopping Zebra server for $instancename"
> >
> >     if start-stop-daemon --pidfile ${PIDFILE} --stop --quiet
> > --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5; then
> > return 0;
> >     else
> > return 1;
> >     fi
> >
> > }
> >
> > usage()
> > {
> >     local scriptname=$0
> >     cat <<EOF
> > Stops Zebra for Koha instances.
> >
> > Usage: $scriptname instancename1 instancename2...
> >
> > EOF
> > }
> >
> > # Parse command line.
> > #[ $# -ge 1 ] || ( usage ; die "Missing instance name..." )
> >
> > # Loop through the instance names
> > for name in "$@"
> > do
> >     if is_instance $name ; then
> >         if is_zebra_running $name; then
> >             if ! stop_zebra_instance $name; then
> >                 warn "Something went wrong stopping Zebra for $name."
> >             fi
> >         else
> >             warn "Zebra already stopped for instance $name."
> >         fi
> >     else
> >         warn "Unknown instance $name."
> >     fi
> > done
> >
> > exit 0
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Scott Owen <sowen at edzone.net> wrote:
> >
> >> OK...I tried this, and it seems to have made no difference ?
> >>
> >> I'm rebooting the Koha server now, to make sure I have a clean
> >> start....I'll try letting it sit for a day or two and see how it goes.
> >>
> >> (Maybe after I made the file changes the system needs a bounce ?)
> >>
> >> -S
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Mark Tompsett <mtompset at hotmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Greetings,
> >>>
> >>> And now for the off-list, WRONG way of doing it, because you don’t want
> >>> to limp along.
> >>>
> >>> $ sudo cp /usr/sbin/koha-stop-zebra /usr/sbin/koha-stop-zebra.Help
> >>> MeItMessedUp
> >>> $ sudo nano /usr/sbin/koha-stop-zebra
> >>>
> >>> Now your goal is to make the stop_zebra_instance function look exactly
> >>> like the patch lines.
> >>>
> >>> stop_zebra_instance()
> >>> {
> >>>     local instancename=$1
> >>>
> >>>     local PIDFILE="/var/run/koha/${instancename}/${instancename}-koha-
> >>> zebra.pid"
> >>>     echo "Stopping Zebra server for $instancename"
> >>>     if start-stop-daemon --pidfile ${PIDFILE} --stop --quiet
> >>> --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5; then
> >>>         return 0;
> >>>     else
> >>>         return 1;
> >>>     fi
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> Sorry the message sent too early. Hope this helps.
> >>> For the record, I’m physically in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, even though
> >>> the company is in the Philippines.
> >>>
> >>> GPML,
> >>> ------------------------------
> >>> [image: Tulong Aklatan logo] <http://www.tulongaklatan.ph> *Mark
> >>> Tompsett*
> >>> Co-founder & Chief Technical Officer
> >>> mark.tompsett at tulongaklatan.ph
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> >>> www.tulongaklatan.ph
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
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