[Koha] Rebuild Zebra cron job

Chris Cormack chris at bigballofwax.co.nz
Thu Feb 26 09:30:12 NZDT 2015


On 26 February 2015 at 02:31, Katelyn Browne <kbrowne at ccpcs.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm hoping you can help me brainstorm reasons why my rebuild_zebra cron job
> stopped working shortly after I updated to 3.18.3 a couple of weeks ago.
> (We're on 3.18.4 now.)
>
> I manually ran a rebuild of biblios and authorities on verbose mode, and it
> worked fine, so I don't think it's a problem with file ownership.
>
> I checked the crontab and the PERL5LIB and KOHA_CONF lines are still there
> and correct. The job set to run as the correct user (the same user I ran it
> manually as).
>
> Has this happened to anyone else upon updating? Do you have suggestions of
> other things I should check?
>
> Hi Katelyn

Often this happens due to file permissions, can you check the user your
cron job is running as, and then check the user
that ones the zebra index files.
If the user the cron is running as doesn't have permission to write to the
files, then it can't update

Chris


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