[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Do Email notifications need a cron job?

[Soulliere, Robert]

Thanks Dan and thanks for your answer regarding my earlier question on a "due time" column which was exactly what we needed.

One more quick question on notification for the list if I could: Is hold notifications handled in the same way as overdue and predue notifications or is that a different mechanism. From what I've read, I was guessing that hold notifications should be triggered once the item on hold is captured a notice is sent at that point... automatically, if the user has indicated they prefer email notification? Is that correct, or does this also require another script and a cron job to actually email the notice?

Thanks,
Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Scott
Sent: July 15, 2009 3:39 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Do Email notifications need a cron job?

Hi Robert:

2009/7/15 Soulliere, Robert <robert.soulliere at mohawkcollege.ca>:
> Hi,
>
> Do automatic email notifications for holds need a cron job set up on the server to send them out? If so, is there a script already set up that I could run to pull and send out the notifications from evergreen?

Yep, see Open-ILS/support-scripts. We run the following cron job:

01 06 * * * cd /home/opensrf/Evergreen-trunk/Open-ILS/src/support-scripts/;
PERL5LIB=/openils/lib/perl5 perl generate_circ_notices.pl --send-email
--notice-type overdue,predue


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Dan Scott
Laurentian University

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