[Koha] Items marked long overdue one day after due date

Tim McMahon tmcmahon at wlpl.org
Thu Feb 19 06:29:41 NZDT 2009


Thanks for the speedy reply.  I already have that line in the crontab. 
Are you saying I can't use the $KOHA_CRON_PATH and need to replace that 
with the actual path?  I have $KOHA_CRON_PATH defined at the beginning 
of the crontab.

Brendan Gallagher wrote:
> Hi Tim --
> 
> You are at the right place for what you want...
> 
> That script needs to be placed in your crontab and you need to replace 
> the first part of it with your path to koha_cronjobs.
> 
> So that script will have items age to longoverdue after 20 days and then 
> become lost after 100 days and charge the patron replacement fees.
> 
> -Brendan
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> On Feb 18, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Tim McMahon wrote:
> 
>> Running Koha 3, we're having all items marked long overdue one day after
>> the due date and patrons are charged the items replacement price.  Our
>> LOST status is 1=lost and 2=long overdue.  The crontab entry is from
>> crontab.example
>>
>> 10 21 * * 1 $USER $KOHA_CRON_PATH/longoverdue.pl --lost 20=2 --lost
>> 100=1 --charge 1 --confirm
>>
>> What else should I be checking to get long overdues to wait till books
>> ar long ovedue?
>>
>> -- 
>> Tim McMahon
>> Technical Services
>> West Liberty Public Library
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> Brendan A. Gallagher
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> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software
> Installation, Data Migration, Training, Customization, Hosting, Complete 
> Support Packages
> Phone # (203)823-5847
> http://bywatersolutions.com
> info at bywatersolutions.com
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Tim McMahon
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West Liberty Public Library
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