Cron jobs and daemons

Koha is supported by a number of background tasks. These tasks can either be periodically executed tasks (cron jobs) or continuously running tasks called daemons.

A cron job is a Linux command for scheduling a command or script on your server to complete repetitive tasks automatically. Scripts executed as a cron job are typically used to modify files or databases; however, they can perform other tasks that do not modify data on the server, like sending out email notifications.

A daemon is a Linux command that is typically started when the system is booted and runs in the background doing some function. The database used by Koha (either MySQL or MariaDB) is a daemon as is the web server (typically Apache).

Koha has many cron jobs in place that you can enable (search engine indexing, overdue notice generation, data cleanup and more), and a few daemons. This chapter will explain those for you.

Crontab example

An example of a Koha crontab can be found in misc/cronjobs/crontab.example

The example includes sample boilerplate cron job entries for the most commonly-used cron jobs.

Cron jobs

المواقع أدناه تفرض تنصيب dev الذي يضع الكرون في misc/, إذا كان لديك تنصيب قياسي قد ترغب في في النظر في bin/ لهذه الملفات إذا كنت لاتستطيع العثور على misc/.

Backup

Daily backup

Script path: misc/cronjobs/backup.sh

Does: creates a daily backup of the Koha database.

إقتراح التردد : يومياً

الإعارة

Holds queue

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/holds/build_holds_queue.pl

Does: updates holds queue report

Required by: Holds queue report

اقتراح التردد: كل 1-4 ساعة

وصف:

  • السكربت الذي يجب تنفيذ النظام بشكل دوري أذا مكتبة النظام تسمح للمستعيرين بوضعة على رف الحجوزات. هذا السكربت يقرر ماإذا كانت المكتبة يجب أن تكون مسؤولة عن تحقيق طلب حجز معين.

    It's behavior is controlled by the system preferences StaticHoldsQueueWeight and RandomizeHoldsQueueWeight.

    إذا كنت لا تريد مشاركة كل مكتباتك في عملية ملء الحجوزات على الرف، يجب عليك إدراج المكتبات التي *تقوم* بالمشاركة في هذه العملية هنا عن طريق إدخال رموز فروع كل المكتبات المشاركة مفصولة بفواصل (مثال: "DPB، LC ، SPL، BML، الخ.)

    افتراضياً، سيتم توليد صف الحجوزات لكي يحاول النظام أولًا ملء الحجز باستخدام المواد الموجودة بالفعل في مكتبة الالتقاط عند الإمكان. إذا لم تكن هناك مواد متاحة في مكتبة الالتقاط لملء حجز، سيقوم عندها build_holds_queue.pl باستخدام قائمة المكتبات المعرفة في StaticHoldsQueueWeight. إذا تم تعطيل RandomizeHoldsQueueWeight ( وهو الافتراضي)، سيقوم النص بتعيين طلبات الملء بترتيب الفروع الموجود في التفضيل StaticHoldsQueueWeight.

    على سبيل المثال نظامك يتكون من ثلاث مكتبات، باحجام مختلفة (صغيرة ،

    إذا ما أردتَ أن تقوم بنشر عبء الحجوزات بالتساوي في نظام مكتبتك. ببساطة مكِّن التفضيل RandomizeHoldsQueueWeight . فعندما يكون هذا التفضيل ممكَّناً، فإن الترتيب الذي سيطلب من المكتبات إنجازحجز لمواد على الرف سيكون عشوائياً في كل مرة يتم إعادة توليد القائمة.

    من غير المستحسن ترك التفضيل StaticHoldsQueueWeight فارغاً في هذا الوقت. لأن ذلك سيؤدي إلى أن يقوم نص build_holds_queue بتجاهل التفضيل RandomizeHoldsQueueWeight، مما سيتسبب في أن يقوم النص بطلب ملء الحجوزات بالترتيب الأبجدي وليس عشوائيًا.

Expired holds

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/holds/cancel_expired_holds.pl

Does: cancels holds where the user has set an expiration date. If the library is using the ExpireReservesMaxPickUpDelay and ExpireReservesMaxPickUpDelayCharge preferences then this script will also cancel holds that have been sitting on the hold shelf for too long and will (if the library does) charge the patron for not picking up the hold.

إقتراح التردد : يومياً

Unsuspend holds

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/holds/auto_unsuspend_holds.pl

Does: checks to find holds that should no longer be suspended and removes the suspension if the AutoResumeSuspendedHolds preference is set to 'allow'. This puts the patron back in to the queue where they were when the hold was suspended.

إقتراح التردد : يومياً

غرامات

مسار السكربت: misc/cronjobs/fines.pl

Does: calculates and charges (or increments) overdue fines per item to patron accounts. The fine calculation is done using the grace period, fine interval, fine amount and other parameters from the circulation and fines rules.

مطلوب بواسطة: التفضيل finesMode

إقتراح التردد: ليلاً

Note If the Koha system preference 'finesMode' is set to 'production', the fines are charged to the patron accounts. If set to 'test', the fines are calculated but not applied.

Note Fines will not be applied on a holiday.

Static fines

Script path: misc/cronjobs/staticfines.pl

Does: charges a single static fine for any/all overdues a patron currently has outstanding. The charge amount is either defined on the command line per borrower category or will use the circulation rules associated with the oldest overdue item the patron has currently checked out (for the first fine period only) Once charged, the fine is static: No new fines will be added until the existing fine is paid off in full.

إقتراح التردد: ليلاً

Note If the Koha system preference 'finesMode' is set to 'production', the fines are charged to the patron accounts. If set to 'test', the fines are calculated but not applied.

Note Fines won't be applied on a holiday.

Long overdues

مسار السكربت: misc/cronjobs/longoverdue.pl

يَفعل: يسمح لواحد بتحديد التأخير من تغيير المواد المختلفة لحالات الفقدان, و إختيار الرسوم لهذه المستخدمة في سعر إستبدال القائمه لسجل المادة.

إقتراح التردد: ليلاً

Note

Staff can control some of the parameters for the longoverdue cron job with the DefaultLongOverdueLostValue and DefaultLongOverdueChargeValue preferences.

Track total checkouts

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/update_totalissues.pl

Does: updates the biblioitems.totalissues field in the database with the latest tally of checkouts based on historical issue statistics.

إقتراح التردد: ليلاً

Warning

If the time on your database server does not match the time on your Koha server you will need to take that into account, and probably use the --since argument instead of the --interval argument for incremental updating.

Note

This cronjob can be used if there is a performance concern. Otherwise, use the UpdateTotalIssuesOnCirc System Preference.

Generate patron file for offline circulation

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/create_koc_db.pl

Does: generates the borrowers.db file for use with the Koha offline circulation tool

إقتراح التردد : يومياً

التجديد التلقائي

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/automatic_renewals.pl

Does: renews items if you're allowing automatic renewal with your circulation and fines rules.

إقتراح التردد: ليلاً

مستخدمين

Batch delete patrons

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/delete_patrons.pl

Does: deletes patron records in batch based on date not borrowed since, expired before, last seen, category code, or library branch.

Note

Dates should be in ISO format, e.g., 2013-07-19, and can be generated with date -d '-3 month' "+%Y-%m-%d".

Important

The options to select the patron records to delete are cumulative. For example, supplying both --expired_before and --library specifies that patron records must meet both conditions to be selected for deletion.

PARAMETERS

  • --not_borrowed_since Delete patrons who have not borrowed since this date.

  • --expired_before Delete patrons with an account expired before this date.

  • --last_seen Delete patrons who have not been connected since this date. The system preference TrackLastPatronActivity must be enabled to use this option.

  • --category_code Delete patrons who have this category code.

  • --library Delete patrons in this library.

  • -c|--confirm This flag must be provided in order for the script to actually delete patron records. If it is not supplied, the script will only report on the patron records it would have deleted.

  • -v|--verbose Verbose mode.

Unverified registrations

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/delete_expired_opac_registrations.pl

Does: deletes patron registrations that were submitted via the OPAC but not reviewed by the library within the number of days entered in the أيام preference.

إقتراح التردد: ليلاً

Unconfirmed registrations

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/delete_unverified_opac_registrations.pl

Does: deletes patron self registrations that were submitted via the OPAC but not confirmed via email within 24 hours. This is only necessary if you are requiring patrons to confirm their registrations via email with the يتطلب preference.

إقتراح التردد: كل ساعة

Anonymize patron data

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/batch_anonymise.pl

Does: removes borrowernumbers from circulation history so that the stats are kept, but the patron information is removed for privacy reasons.

Update child to adult patron type

مسار السكربت: misc/cronjobs/fines.pl

Does: converts juvenile/child patrons from juvenile patron category and category code to corresponding adult patron category and category code when they reach the upper age limit defined in the Patron Categories.

إقتراح التردد: ليلاً

DESCRIPTION

This script is designed to update patrons from juvenile to adult patron types, remove the guarantor, and update their category codes appropriately when they reach the upper age limit defined in the Patron Categories.

USAGE EXAMPLES

"juv2adult.pl"

"juv2adult.pl" -b=<branchcode> -f=<categorycode> -t=<categorycode> (Processes a single branch, and updates the patron categories from category to category)

"juv2adult.pl" -f=<categorycode> -t=<categorycode> -v -n (Processes all branches, shows all messages, and reports the patrons who would be affected. Takes no action on the database)

الإخطارات

Message queue

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/process_message_queue.pl

Does: processes the message queue to send the check out, check in and hold filled emails and SMS message to users and sends outgoing emails to patrons. requires EnhancedMessagingPreferences to be on

اقتراح التردد: كل 1-4 ساعة

Important

Item due and Advanced due notices are controlled by the advance_notices cron.

Advanced notice

مسار النص: 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

إقتراح التردد: ليلاً

Note

This script does not actually send the notices. It queues them in the message queue for later

Overdue notice

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/overdue_notices.pl

يَفعلُ: يحضر الرسائل لتنبيه المستفيدين بخصوص الرسائل المتأخرة (كلاهما عبر البريد الألكتروني و الطباعة)

إقتراح التردد: ليلاً

Note

This script does not actually send the notices. It queues them in the message queue for later or generates the HTML for later printing

See also

The misc/cronjobs/advance_notices.pl program allows you to send messages to patrons in advance of their items becoming due, or to alert them of items that have just become due.

تقنية التحدث الى

لمعرفة المزيد حول تنصيب منتج هذا الطرف الثالث، انظر فصل :ref:`Talking Tech <talking-tech-label>

Sending notices file

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/thirdparty/TalkingTech_itiva_outbound.pl

Does: generates Spec C outbound notifications file for Talking Tech i-tiva phone notification system.

Required by: TalkingTechItivaPhoneNotification

إقتراح التردد: ليلاً

Receiving notices file

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/thirdparty/TalkingTech_itiva_inbound.pl

Does: processes received results files for Talking Tech i-tiva phone notification system.

Required by: TalkingTechItivaPhoneNotification

إقتراح التردد: ليلاً

Notify patrons of expiration

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/membership_expiry.pl

Does: sends messages to warn patrons of their card expiration to the message queue cron.

Requires: MembershipExpiryDaysNotice

Frequency: nightly

In processing/book cart

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/cart_to_shelf.pl

Does: updates all items with a location of CART to the item's permanent location.

Required by: NewItemsDefaultLocation, InProcessingToShelvingCart, and ReturnToShelvingCart system preferences

إقتراح التردد: كل ساعة

الفهرس

Import webservice batch

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/import_webservice_batch.pl

Does: processes import bach queues of type 'webservice'. Batches can also be processed through the UI.

Note

This script is used for OCLC Connexion

Connexion import daemon

مسار النص: misc/bin/connexion_import_daemon.pl

Does: listens for OCLC Connexion requests and is compliant with OCLC Gateway specification. It takes requests with MARC XML and import batch parameters from a configuration file and forwards it to svc/import_bib

Note

This script is used for OCLC Connexion

Batch item deletion

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/delete_items.pl

Does: generates a query against the items database and deletes the items matching the criteria specified in the command line arguments.

PARAMETERS

  • --verbose Send the "WHERE" clause generated by the collected C<--where> arguments, as well as items affected to Standard Out.

  • --where The C<--where> option may called multiple times. The following argument must be a syntactically valid SQL statement which is part of the C<WHERE> clause querying the items table. These are joined by C<AND>.

  • --commit No items will be deleted unless the C<--commit> flag is present.

EXAMPLES

The following are examples of this script:

delete_items.pl --where "items.withdrawn ! 0" --where "items.withdrawn_on < $(date --date="13 month ago" --rfc-3339=date)" --commit

delete_items.pl --where "itemlost >= '1'" --where "itemlost <='4'" --where "itemlost_on < '2014-04-28'" --commit

Check URL quick

Script path: misc/cronjobs/check-url-quick.pl

Does: checks URLs from biblio records; scans all URLs found by default in 856$u of bibliographic records and displays if resources are available or not.

Note

This script replaces the check-url.pl script

PARAMETERS

  • --host=http://default.tld Server host used when URL doesn't have one, ie doesn't begin with 'http:'. For example, if --host=mylib.com, then when 856$u contains 'img/image.jpg', the url checked is: http://www.mylib.com/image.jpg.

  • --tags Tags containing URLs in $u subfields. If not provided, 856 tag is checked. Multiple tags can be specified, for example:

    check-url-quick.pl --tags 310 410 856

  • --verbose|v Outputs both successful and failed URLs.

  • --html Formats output in HTML. The result can be redirected to a file accessible by http. This way, it's possible to link directly to the bibliographic record in edit mode. With this parameter --host-intranet is required.

  • --host-intranet=http://koha-pro.tld Server host used to link to bibliographic record editing page in Koha intranet interface.

  • --timeout=10 Timeout for fetching URLs. By default 10 seconds.

  • --maxconn=1000 Number of simulaneous HTTP requests. By default 200 connexions.

تأكيد عنوان URLs

مسار السكربت: misc/cronjobs/check-url.pl

يَعمَلُ: تأكيد العنوان في حقل 856$u.السكربت يمكن الآن إخراجه ويتم تهيئته في CSV أو HTML. إصدار روابط الــ HTML مباشرة الى محرر تسجيلة مارك الببليوغرافية.

إقتراح التردد: كل شهر

Learn more: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Check-url_enhancements

Delete records via leader

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/delete_records_via_leader.pl

Does: attempts to delete any MARC records where the leader character 5 equals 'd'.

PARAMETERS

  • -c|--confirm Script will do nothing without this parameter

  • -v|--verbose Verbose mode

  • -t|--test Test mode, does not delete records. Test mode cannot determine if a record/item will be deleted successfully, it will only tell you what records and items the script will attempt to delete.

  • -i|--delete-items Try deleting items before deleting record. Records with items cannot be deleted.

Update authorities

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/merge_authorities.pl

Does: updates biblio data with changes to authorities records

Note

The name of this script is misleading. This script does not merge authorities together it instead merges authority data with linked bib records. Edits to authority records will be applied to bibliographic records that use that authority when this script is run.

مطلوب من: AuthorityMergeLimit تفضيلات النظام

إقتراح التردد: ليلاً

Serials update

مسار السكربت: misc/cronjobs/serialsUpdate.pl

يَعمَلُ: التأكد منإذا كان هناك منشورات"متأخرة" على الإشتراكات الفعالة, و إذا كان هناك, السكربت سوف يتم تعيينه في وقت متأخر, وتضيف التالية كما هو متوقع.

إقتراح التردد: ليلاً

Automatic item update

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/automatic_item_modification_by_age.pl

Does: updates items based on the list of rules set forth in the تعديلات تلقائية للمادة بواسطة العمر tool

Required by: تعديلات تلقائية للمادة بواسطة العمر

Frequency suggestions: nightly

أوباك

RSS feeds

مسار السكربت: misc/cronjobs/rss/rss.pl

Does: produces an RSS XML document for any SQL query (not used for search results RSS feed). Learn more.

إقتراح التردد: كل ساعة

Authorities browser

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/build_browser_and_cloud.pl

Does: generates content for authorities browse in OPAC

مطلوب بواسطة التفضيل OpacBrowser

Important

هذا التفضيل ينطبق فقط على الأنظمة الفرنسية في هذا الوقت.

سحابات الموضوع/المؤلف

مسار السكربت: misc/cronjobs/cloud-kw.pl

Does: generates HTML keywords clouds from Koha Zebra indexes. misc/cronjobs/cloud-sample.conf has a sample of how this script operates.

التردد: وهذا هو النوع من السكربت يمكنك من التنفيذ مرة واحدة في كل شهر أو نحو ذلك، وتوليد المحتويات لن تتغير كثيرا مع مرور الوقت.

System administration

Services throttle

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/services_throttle.pl

Does: resets the xISBN services throttle

إقتراح التردد: ليلاً

Clean up database

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/cleanup_database.pl

Does: truncates the sessions table, cleans out old zebraqueue entries, action logs and staged MARC files.

Share usage stats

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/share_usage_with_koha_community.pl

Does: sends your info to the Hea website if you're sharing information via the UsageStats feature

Frequency: monthly

التزويد

تنظيف الإقتراحات القديمة

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/purge_suggestions.pl

Does: removes old (defined by you) suggestions from the suggestion management area.

Note

The system preference PurgeSuggestionsOlderThan defines the number of days used in the script

Email suggestions to process

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/notice_unprocessed_suggestions.pl

Does: generates a notice to the fund owner that there are suggestions in need of processing

EDI message processing

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/edi_cron.pl

Does: sends and received EDI messages

Frequency: Every 15 minutes

Remove temporary EDI files

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/remove_temporary_edifiles.pl

Does: removes temporary EDI files that are older than 5 days

التقارير

Run report

Script path: misc/cronjobs/runreport.pl

Does: runs pre-existing saved reports

PARAMETERS

  • -v|--verbose Verbose output

  • --format=s Selects format. Choice of text, html, csv or tsv

  • -e|--email Whether or not to use e-mail (implied by --to or --from)

  • -a|--attachment Attach the report as a file. Cannot be used with html format

  • --username Username to pass to the SMTP server for authentication

  • --password Password to pass to the SMTP server for authentication

  • --method The type of authentication. Ie. LOGIN, DIGEST-MD5, etc.

  • --to=s E-mail address to send report to

  • --from=s E-mail address to send report from

  • --subject=s Subject for the e-mail

  • --store-results Store the result of the report

  • --csv-header Add column names as first line of csv output

ARGUMENTS

  • reportID Report ID Number from saved_sql.id, multiple ID's may be specified

Norwegian patron database

NL sync to Koha

Script path: misc/cronjobs/nl-sync-to-koha.pl

Does: syncs patrons from the Norwegian national patron database (NL) to Koha

Note Relies on NorwegianPatronDBUsername and NorwegianPatronDBPassword system preferences

NL sync from Koha

Script path: misc/cronjobs/nl-sync-from-koha.pl

Does: syncs patrons from Koha to the Norwegian national patron database (NL)

Note Relies on NorwegianPatronDBUsername and NorwegianPatronDBPassword system preferences

Social data

Get report social data

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/social_data/get_report_social_data.pl

Does: downloads data from Babelthèque to add to OPAC records

إقتراح التردد: ليلاً

Update social data

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/social_data/update_social_data.pl

Does: updates OPAC records with Babelthèque social data

Daemons

Daemons are continuously running tasks that help support Koha operation. Your database and webserver are run as daemons. Newer versions of Koha start two different daemons for most koha instances:

  • zebra - this is the index server

  • koha-indexer - this daemon updates the index server with new and modified data (biblios and authorities)

These daemons are started by the script /etc/init.d/koha-common.

Zebra indexer daemon

Script path: /usr/sbin/koha-indexer (invoked from /etc/init.d/koha-common)

The koha-indexer script invokes rebuild_zebra.pl in daemon mode. In this mode, the script will run continuously and check the database for new or modified data every 30 seconds. New or modified records are then sent to Zebra for indexing, which only takes a second or so. The advantage of this approach is a search system which is much more responsive to changes, compared to the cron job approach.

تطوير السكربت

هذه لا ينبغي أن تنفذ بدون تعديل:

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/update_items.pl

مسار السكربت:misc/cronjobs/smsoverdues.pl

مسار السكربت:misc/cronjobs/notifyMailsOp.pl

مسارالسكربت:misc/cronjobs/reservefix.pl

مسار النص: misc/cronjobs/zebraqueue_start.pl