[Koha] How frequently to run zebra rebuild and what switches

[Steven Nickerson]

Thanks Chris!
It turns out I actually do have /etc/cron.d/koha-common and didn't even
realize it was there (running as ROOT, as well as
/etc/cron.daily/koha-common and /etc/cron.hourly/koha-common).  I added the
other entry to the ROOT crontab file "manually".  If this is the entry in
the /etc/cron.d/koha-common file is this all that I need for the zebra
rebuild?  If a librarian adds a new holding, it should appear in search
results within 5 minutes with this cron entry, right?
*/5 * * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/koha-rebuild-zebra && koha-rebuild-zebra
$(koha-list --enabled)

As Paul mentioned, there are certain tasks/admin functions that seem to
require a complete rebuild and not just an "incremental" one...does the
/etc/cron.d/koha-common take care of doing that periodically?  Or should I
leave my complete zebra rebuild in the ROOT crontab as I have it now,
perhaps?

THANKS!
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Cormack [mailto:chrisc at catalyst.net.nz] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 3:17 PM
To: Steven Nickerson
Cc: 'Olugbenga Adara'; koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] How frequently to run zebra rebuild and what switches

* Steven Nickerson (snicker1 at maine.rr.com) wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, but I'm 99% sure it was NOT there by default.   Can
> someone tell me what the "default" crontab entry for rebuild_zebra.pl is,
> and maybe what ALL of the default crontab entries are/should be?   Now I'm
> concerned I'm missing more than just the rebuild_zebra one.
> 
If it wasn't set up by default, im 100% sure you didn't install via the
packages. 

Because the packages put koha-common in /etc/cron.d that does the indexing.

The fact you have reindexed as root will have mucked up all sorts of
permissions, including breaking this cron job.

Chris

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