[Koha] Koha Not calculating and charging overdue fines

Caroline Cyr-La-Rose caroline.cyr-la-rose at inlibro.com
Fri Aug 2 02:32:54 NZST 2019


Hello!

I'm not a system administrator, so I'm not sure what I do will work for 
you. Maybe someone else on the list can correct me if this is not the 
right way to do it.

What I do to check my crons is go on my server and type crontab -l  
(dash small "L" for "list"). This gives me the list of all the crons 
that are running on my server.

If the fines.pl script is not there, you will have to add it. So type 
crontab -e (dash small "E" for "edit").

On the next available line, add in your cron. This is what I use to 
remember the order : https://devhints.io/cron

Normally, you want your fines.pl script to run once daily. We run ours 
during the night. So something like

0 1 * * * misc/cronjobs/fines.pl

will make the script run everyday at 1 am

I hope this helps

Caroline

On 19-08-01 04 h 53, muirunyeri wrote:
> Hi Carolyne,
>
> I'm not sure if the fines.pl cron job is running. If you could guide 
> me on how to check I'd be very grateful.
>
> The system is new and has been in use for about 6 months and not an 
> upgrade but a clean install.
>
> The circulation system pref are set as
> 1. Checkin policy- calculate fines on return= Do
> 2. Fines policy- fines mode= calculate and charge.
>
> Thanking you for your assistance
>
> Warm regards
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Caroline Cyr-La-Rose <caroline.cyr-la-rose at inlibro.com>
> Date: 31/07/2019 16:29 (GMT+03:00)
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Not calculating and charging overdue fines
>
> Hello,
>
> I need more information about your problem.
>
> Is the fines.pl cron job running?
>
> Is this a new Koha installation or did it stop calculating fines after
> an upgrade? Which version are your running?
>
> Which system preferences did you set and what was their value?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Caroline
>
> On 19-07-31 06 h 35, muirunyeri wrote:
> > Dear team,
> > My system is not charging nor calculating overdue fines.
> > I have set the circulation preferences as they should.
> > Kindly assist
> >
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