12.2. Cron Jobs

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Koha requires several cron jobs to run. Please list the jobs you know about below so I can build on the manual. If you think we need more than the fields I listed, let me know - or alter the document.

TIP: Please note that the locations below assume a dev install which puts the crons in misc/, if you have a standard install you may want to look in bin/ instead. 

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Script path: misc/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl
Does: Updates Zebra indexes with recently changed data.
Required by: Zebra

Frequency suggestion: every n minutes, depending on performance needs

Script path: misc/cronjobs/advance_notices.pl
Does: prepares "pre-due" notices and "item due" notices for patrons who request them
prepares notices for patrons for items just due or coming due soon.
requires EnhancedMessagingPreferences to be on
Frequency suggestion: nightly
TIP: This script does not actually send the notices. It queues them in the message queue for later

Script path: misc/cronjobs/process_message_queue.pl
Does: processes the message_queue to send emails and SMS messages to users
sends outgoing emails to patrons.
these messages are the ones prepared by other scripts, like overdue_notices.pl and others.
Frequency suggestion: nightly

Script path: misc/cronjobs/build_browser_and_cloud.pl
Does:
Required by: OpacBrowser system preference
Frequency suggestion:

Script path: misc/cronjobs/fines.pl
Does:
Required by: finesMode system preference
Frequency suggestion: nightly
IMPORTANT: This script replaces the old fines2.pl, fines-ll.pl, and fines-sanop.pl scripts.

 

Script path:

misc/cronjobs/holds/build_holds_queue.pl

Does:

Updates holds queue

Required by: Circulation >> Holds Queue
Frequency suggestion: every 1-4 hrs

Script path: misc/cronjobs/longoverdue.pl
Does: allows one to specify on the command line system-wide delays for changing items to different lost statuses, and optionally charge for the item.
Required by:
Frequency suggestion:

nightly

 

Script path: misc/cronjobs/overdue_notices.pl
Does: prepares messages to alert patrons of overdue messages
Frequency suggestion: nightly

IMPORTANT: This script replaces the old overduenotices.pl, overduenotices-30.pl, overduenotices-csv.pl, and smsoverdues.pl scripts.

Script path: misc/cronjobs/services_throttle.pl
Does: Resets counters for web services. Currently only OCLC's XISBN service is affected.
Required by: XISBN feature
Frequency suggestion: nightly

Script path: misc/migration_tools/merge_authorities.pl
Does: Updates biblio data with changes to authorities records
Required by: dontmerge system preference
Frequency suggestion: nightly

Script path: misc/cronjobs/rss/rss.pl
Does: Produces an RSS XML document for any SQL query (not used for search results RSS feed) Required by:
Frequency suggestion:

hourly

Deprecated scripts

Should not be run without modification:

Script path: misc/cronjobs/update_items.pl

 

Script path:

misc/cronjobs/smsoverdues.pl

 

Script path: misc/cronjobs/notifyMailsOp.pl

Script path: misc/cronjobs/reservefix.pl

Script path: misc/cronjobs/zebraqueue_start.pl

Script path: misc/cronjobs/j2a.pl