[Koha] cleanup_database.pl

[Reed Wade]

setting MAILTO=youremailaddress might get you some error reports as well

-reed


2010/5/20 Christopher Curry <ccurry at amphilsoc.org>:
> Greg,
>
> Thanks for the point in the right direction.  I totally forgot about the ENV
> variables.  That will probably take care of it and it explains why the
> script didn't run.  I wish I could have seen the error message about not
> being about to find the perl modules.  I would have recognized it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christopher Curry
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>
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> On 05/19/2010 12:15 PM, Greg Barniskis wrote:
>
> On 5/19/2010 10:34 AM, Christopher Curry wrote:
> ...
>
> Here is my crontab:
>
> "0 3 * * 2-6 perl
> /usr/local/src/kohaclone/misc/cronjobs/cleanup_database.pl -v --sessions
> --zebraqueue 10 >>/var/log/koha/cleanup_database.log"
>
> ...
>
> Any obvious issues with my configuration? Any ideas how I can make this
> work?
>
> Your crontab example doesn't show you setting the environmental variables
> that may be needed (PERL5LIB and KOHA_CONF). See the examples from the web
> page below and modify the paths as needed for your system. You likely have
> these variables specified for your shell (so running the same command from
> the shell works), but cron needs these values too.
>
> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:cronjobs
>
> Also, this may not apply to your OS, but whenever I have cron issues on
> FreeBSD, ensuring that absolute paths are specified can help. So I'd
> personally use "/usr/bin/perl" as the command, not just "perl", or even skip
> that entirely and let the system figure it out from the specified script's
> #! line (again, YMMV with OS flavor).
>
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