[Koha] search quits working

[Mark Tompsett]

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











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
>>> *Tamayao's Library Hosting Services*
>>> 3067 Tolentino St., Pinagkaisahan, Makati City, NCR, Fourth District
>>> www.tulongaklatan.ph
>>>
>>
>>
>
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